An Overview of Recent Progress in Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments
Accelerator Physics
2017-05-31 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to examine experimental progress in laser wakefield acceleration over the past decade (2004-2014), and to use trends in the data to understand some of the important physical processes. By examining a set of over 50 experiments, various trends concerning the relationship between plasma density, accelerator length, laser power and the final electron beam en- ergy are revealed. The data suggest that current experiments are limited by dephasing and that current experiments typically require some pulse evolution to reach the trapping threshold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.10588,
title = {An Overview of Recent Progress in Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments},
author = {S. P. D. Mangles},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10588},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
12 pages, contribution to the CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Plasma Wake Acceleration, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 - 29 Nov 2014