Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators

By Eric Esarey, C. Schroeder, W. Leemans. 2009

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• GeV-scale electron acceleration in a gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide (2007, background): “For low laser intensities, corresponding to a0 1, a linear wakefield is formed in which the relative amplitude of the plasma wave δne/ne 1 and the wakefield is sinusoidal [3].”
• Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators (2013, neutral): “…et al. (1997), Gordon et al. (1998), Gahn et al. (1999), Santala et al. (2001), Leemans et al. (2002), Malka et al. (2002), Najmudin et al. (2003), Pukhov (2003), Bingham, Mendonca, and Shukla (2004), Mangles et al. (2005), Joshi (2007), Patel (2007), and Esarey, Schroeder, and Leemans (2009).”
• Vacuum laser acceleration of relativistic electrons using plasma mirror injectors (2015, background): “At present, the most advanced scheme consists of using ultraintense laser pulses to excite large amplitude wakefields in underdense plasmas, providing extremely high accelerating gradients in the order of 100 GV/m [2].”
• Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam (2017, neutral): “Laser-wakefield accelerators are plasma-based electron accelerators driven by intense laser pulses [14 – 17], capable of accelerating electron beams to the GeV level [18 – 21].”
• Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction (2013, background): “Occasionally, ‘‘preplasma’’ formation may also allow additional electron acceleration mechanisms to take place in the underdense plasma region (Esarey, Schroeder, and Leemans, 2009), possibly leading to electron energies much higher than given by Eq.”
• Intense terahertz radiation and their applications (2016, methodology): “These wakefield oscillations are used for particle acceleration in laser driven particle accelerators [117, 119].”
• Developments in laser-driven plasma accelerators (2013, background): “The wakefield is driven by the ponderomotive force, which is the time-averaged force experienced by a charged particle as it moves in the fields of an electromagnetic pulse [1, 10, 11].”
• Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications (2012, background): “…phase velocity approaching c leads to electron acceleration (Tajima and Dawson 1979), which was experimentally realized up to GeV energies, including demonstration of mono-energetic electron bunches (e.g. Malka et al 2002, Modena et al 2002, Leemans et al 2006, Hafz et al 2008, Esarey et al 2009).”
• Diagnostics for plasma-based electron accelerators (2018, background): “When each electron’s quiver motion in the field EL is non-relativistic, the ponderomotive force ~Fp on each electron (mass me) is (Esarey et al., 2009; Kruer, 1988) ~Fp = −mec2~∇(a2/2), (1) where a = eEL/meωc is the local dimensionless normalized vector potential, equal to the ratio of momentum…”