Title :
Tunable monoenergetic electron beams from staged ionization assisted laser wakefield accelerator
Author :
Golovin, G. ; Chen, S. ; Powers, N. ; Liu, Cong ; Banerjee, Sean ; Zhang, Juyong ; Zeng, M. ; Sheng, Zhen ; Umstadter, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
Abstract :
By employing a pair of partially overlapped supersonic gas jets, we made a separation of injection and acceleration stages of laser wakefield acceleration and produced stable, quasi-monoenergetic (10-30% FWHM) and tunable (50-300 MeV) electron beams.
Keywords :
particle beam injection; wakefield accelerators; acceleration stages; injection stages; partially overlapped supersonic gas jets; staged ionization assisted laser wakefield accelerator; tunable quasimonoenergetic electron beams; Acceleration; Electron beams; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Plasma density; Semiconductor lasers; X-ray lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
