• DocumentCode
    689983
  • Title

    Generation of quasi-monoenergetic 2 GeV electrons by laser wakefield acceleration

  • Author

    Wang, Xiongfei ; Zgadzaj, R. ; Fazel, N. ; Li, Zuyi ; Henderson, W. ; Chang, Yu-Yu ; Korzekwa, R. ; Yi, S.A. ; Khudik, V. ; Zhang, Xiaobing ; Tsai, H.-E. ; Pai, C.-H. ; Quevedo, H. ; Dyer, G. ; Gaul, E. ; Martinez, Manuel ; Bernstein, Andrey ; Borger, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report self-injected quasi-monoenergetic (5% spread FWHM) acceleration of electrons to 2.0 ± 0.1 GeV by 0.6 PW-laser-driven wakefield acceleration in pure He plasma of density 5×1017 cm-3. Electron bunches diverge ~0.5mrad, and contain ~60 pC.
  • Keywords
    helium; particle beam bunching; plasma accelerators; plasma density; plasma diagnostics; plasma light propagation; wakefield accelerators; FWHM; He; electron bunches; electron volt energy 2 GeV; laser-driven wakefield acceleration; power 0.6 PW; pure He plasma; quasimonoenergetic electron generation; self-injected quasimonoenergetic acceleration; Acceleration; Helium; Optical pulses; Plasmas; Semiconductor lasers; X-ray lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834373
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=689983