laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs)
Laser-wakefield accelerators for high-resolution X-ray imaging of complex microstructures
... Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) are high acceleration-gradient plasma-based particle accelerators capable of producing ultra-relativistic electron ...the wakefield, accelerated ...
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Multistage coupling of laser-wakefield accelerators with curved plasma channels
... of laser-wakefield accelerators is essential to overcome laser energy depletion for high-energy applications such as TeV-level electron-positron ...subsequent laser pulses into stages ...
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Wide-angle electron beams from laser-wakefield accelerators
... Laser-wakefield accelerators have the intrinsic property of emitting a low-energy nC-level electron beam in a wide cone aligned with the laser propagation ...in laser and plasma ...
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Laser-wakefield accelerators for medical phase contrast imaging : Monte Carlo simulations and experimental studies
... As a proof of principle of the viability of using LWFA driven betatron radiation for X-PCi, a phase contrast experiment in free space propagation has been carried out using the X-ray beam produced by the ALPHA-X LWFA. ...
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Laser-wakefield accelerators for high-resolution X-ray imaging of complex microstructures
... Our results indicate that betatron X-rays from LWFA can be competitive with conventional synchro- tron sources for the characterization of eutectic alloys and solid density materials. This opens the door to ...
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Towards attosecond high-energy electron bunches : controlling self-injection in laser wakefield accelerators through plasma density modulation
... provide a means for controlling the bunch properties. While a complete theory of self-injection in the LWFA is currently lacking, several models describing important aspects of the process have been proposed. Initial ...
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Tunable Electron Multibunch Production in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
... in laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) [3–5] and in beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFAs) in cm to meter-scale [6] plasma ...plasma wakefield acceleration, and light ...
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Laser-wakefield accelerators for high-resolution X-ray imaging of complex microstructures
... the laser wakefield accelerator setup could aid in the refinement of calculations of the lamel- lae spacing, growth rate, and undercooling and further enhance our understanding of the detailed morphology ...
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Observation of laser power amplification in a self injecting laser wakefield accelerator
... Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFA) [1] can now pro- duce electron beams with particle energies greater than GeV from centimeter scale interaction lengths ...high-intensity laser pulse ...
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Ionization induced electron injection in laser wakefield acceleration
... in laser wakefield acceleration: electron injection by use of field ionization of atoms to high ...color laser ionization injection scheme, we show quasi-monoenergetic electron acceleration is ...
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Quantum Radiation Reaction in Laser-Electron-Beam Collisions
... the laser fields; thus their probability of emitting a photon or creating an additional pair before exiting the laser pulse is very ...Converting laser en- ergy to pairs requires much more intense, ...
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Quasimonoenergetic electron acceleration in the self-modulated laser wakefield regime
... the laser polarization, thus allowing for observation of eventual beam inhomogeneities in this di- ...the laser polarization direction, at the end of the interaction leaving the gas jet into slightly ...
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Undulator radiation driven by laser-wakefield accelerator electron beams
... The laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) is a very attractive alternative to radio frequency (RF) acceleration technology because of the roughly three orders of magnitude increase in the achievable ...
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Optical pumped ultra-short pulse CO2 lasers as drivers of laser-plasma accelerators and other applications
... CO2 laser can be designed, which would be suitable for many applications including XUV photolithography, remote sensing and driving a laser wakefield ...
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Electron beam manipulation, injection and acceleration in plasma wakefield accelerators by optically generated plasma density spikes
... synchronized laser pulses interact in an underdense two component gas mixture such as hydrogen and ...One laser pulse is focused to intensities of the I ≈ 10 14−15 W/cm 2 level in order ...
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Advanced schemes for underdense plasma photocathode wakefield accelerators : pathways towards ultrahigh brightness electron beams
... photocathode laser can be compressed down to 1 µm without significantly changing the peak intensity and spot ...the laser pulse ...photocathode laser represented using an envelope approximation, ...
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Laser-plasma generated very high energy electrons (VHEEs) in radiotherapy
... cells that are highly proliferative with rapid cell divisions and less differentiated (i.e. stem cells are more sensitive than mature somatic cells). Tumour cells usually divide faster than normal cells thus there are ...
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Study of space radiation effects with laser-plasma-accelerators
... of laser-plasma-accelerators! As we will see in the following sections, in laser-plasma-accelerators similar radiation producing mechanisms are at work as in space ...by ...
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Enhance the Terahertz Wave by Varying the Laser Beam Intensity via Relativistic Plasma
... synchrotron accelerators [12], or by impacting short laser pulses characterized with solid targets (nonlinear crystals or semiconductors) [13, ...pulse. Laser with ultra-short pulse was employed by ...
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Influence of a Static Magnetic Field on Beam Emittance in Laser Wakefield Acceleration
... This is the idea of the bubble regime [7,8]. For these conditions, a hundred-joule class laser would have an intensity of the order ~ 10 . In this regime, the electrons are continuously injected, this results in ...
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