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20132024
most citedExact phase space matching for staging plasma and traditional accelerator components using longitudinally tailored plasma profiles

101 citations · 746 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 2 cited

Correlations between X-rays, Visible Light and Drive-Beam Energy Loss Observed in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments at FACET-II

Chaojie Zhang, Doug Storey, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +26

This study documents several correlations observed during the first run of the plasma wakefield acceleration experiment E300 conducted at FACET-II, using a single drive electron bu…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 2 cited

Acceleration of a Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma

Spencer Gessner, Erik Adli, James M. Allen +16

Plasmas are a compelling medium for particle acceleration owing to their natural ability to sustain electric fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those available in conv…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 4 cited

Optimization of transformer ratio and beam loading in a plasma wakefield accelerator with a structure-exploiting algorithm

Q. Su, J. Larson, T. N. Dalichaouch +8

Plasma-based acceleration has emerged as a promising candidate as an accelerator technology for a future linear collider or a next-generation light source. For a linear collider, t…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 3 cited

Positron beam loading and acceleration in the blowout regime of plasma wakefield accelerator

Shiyu Zhou, Weiming An, Siqin Ding +4

Plasma wakefield acceleration in the nonlinear blowout regime has been shown to provide high acceleration gradients and high energy transfer efficiency while maintaining great beam…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 5 cited

Report of Snowmass 21 Accelerator Frontier Topical Group 6 on Advanced Accelerators

C. Geddes, M. Hogan, P. Musumeci +1

The Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier topical group \# 6 on Advanced Accelerator Concepts, covers new R\&D concepts for particle acceleration, generation, and focusing. Based on c…

physics.plasm-ph2022

Highly spin-polarized multi-GeV electron beams generated by single-species plasma photocathodes

Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales +11

High-gradient and high-efficiency acceleration in plasma-based accelerators has been demonstrated, showing its potential as the building block for a future collider operating at th…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 5 cited

Integrating a ponderomotive guiding center algorithm into a quasi-static particle-in-cell code based on azimuthal mode decomposition

Fei Li, Weiming An, Frank S. Tsung +2

High-fidelity modeling of plasma-based acceleration (PBA) requires the use of 3D fully nonlinear and kinetic descriptions based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) method. Three-dimensio…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 1 cited

The Optimal Beam-loading in Two-bunch Nonlinear Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

Xiaoning Wang, Jie Gao, Qianqian Su +7

Due to the highly nonlinear nature of the beam-loading, it is at present not possible to analytically determine the beam parameters needed in a two-bunch plasma wakefield accelerat…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 14 cited

High efficiency uniform positron beam loading in a hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator

Shiyu Zhou, Jianfei Hua, Qianqian Su +3

We propose a novel positron beam loading regime in a hollow plasma channel that can efficiently accelerate beam with high gradient and narrow energy spread. In this regime, t…

physics.acc-ph2021

Plasma Wakefield Accelerators with Ion Motion and the E-314 Experiment at FACET-II

C. Hansel, M. Yadav, P. Manwani +3

A future plasma based linear collider has the potential to reach unprecedented energies and transform our understanding of high energy physics. The extremely dense beams in such a…

physics.plasm-ph2021

In Situ Generation of High-Energy Spin-Polarized Electrons in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales +9

In situ generation of a high-energy, high-current, spin-polarized electron beam is an outstanding scientific challenge to the development of plasma-based accelerators for high-ener…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 49 cited

High efficiency uniform wakefield acceleration of a positron beam using stable asymmetric mode in a hollow channel plasma

Shiyu Zhou, Jianfei Hua, Wei Lu +3

Plasma wakefield acceleration in the blowout regime is particularly promising for high-energy acceleration of electron beams because of its potential to simultaneously provide larg…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 1 cited

A new field solver for modeling of relativistic particle-laser interactions using the particle-in-cell algorithm

Fei Li, Kyle G. Miller, Xinlu Xu +5

A customized finite-difference field solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm that provides higher fidelity for wave-particle interactions in intense electromagnetic waves i…

physics.acc-ph2020

Nonlinear equilibria and emittance growth in plasma wakefield accelerators with ion motion

C. Hansel, W. An, W. Mori +1

The plasma wakefield accelerator may accelerate particles to high energy in a future linear collider with unprecedented acceleration gradients, exceeding the GeV/m range. Beams for…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 33 cited

A quasi-static particle-in-cell algorithm based on an azimuthal Fourier decomposition for highly efficient simulations of plasma-based acceleration: QPAD

Fei Li, Weiming An, Viktor K. Decyk +3

The 3D quasi-static particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm is a very efficient method for modeling short-pulse laser or relativistic charged particle beam-plasma interactions. In this al…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 22 cited

On numerical errors to the fields surrounding a relativistically moving particle in PIC codes

Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, Frank S. Tsung +7

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 12 cited

Generating high quality ultra-relativistic electron beams using an evolving electron beam driver

Thamine Dalichaouch, Xinlu Xu, Fei Li +4

A new method of controllable injection to generate high quality electron bunches in the nonlinear blowout regime driven by electron beams is proposed and demonstrated using particl…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 2 cited

Optimizing Laser Wakefield Acceleration in the Nonlinear Self-Guided Regime for Fixed Laser Energy

A. Davidson, A. Tableman, P. Yu +5

The scaling laws for laser wakefield acceleration in the nonlinear, self-guided regime [Lu et al. Phys. Rev. Spec. Top. Accel. Beams 10, 061301 (2007)] are examined in detail using…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 17 cited

A near-ideal dechirper for plasma-based electron and positron acceleration using a hollow channel plasma

Y. P. Wu, J. F. Hua, C. H. Pai +15

Plasma-based electron and positron wakefield acceleration has made great strides in the past decade. However one major challenge for its applications to coherent light sources and…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 53 cited

Measurement of transverse wakefields induced by a misaligned positron bunch in a hollow channel plasma accelerator

C. A. Lindstrøm, E. Adli, J. M. Allen +18

Hollow channel plasma wakefield acceleration is a proposed method to provide high acceleration gradients for electrons and positrons alike: a key to future lepton colliders. Howeve…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 74 cited

High quality electron bunch generation using a longitudinal density-tailored plasma-based accelerator in the three-dimensional blowout regime

X. L. Xu, F. Li, W. An +4

The generation of very high quality electron bunches (high brightness and low energy spread) from a plasma-based accelerator in the three-dimensional blowout regime using self-inje…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 48 cited

Controlling the Numerical Cerenkov Instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction

Fei Li, Peicheng Yu, Xinlu Xu +10

In this paper we present a customized finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) Maxwell solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm. The solver is customized to effectively eliminat…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 56 cited

9 GeV Energy Gain in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

M Litos, E Adli, J M Allen +15

An electron beam has gained a maximum energy of 9 GeV per particle in a 1.3 m-long electron beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. The amount of charge accelerated in the spectr…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 31 cited

Nano-scale electron bunching in laser-triggered ionization injection in plasma accelerators

X. L. Xu, C. J. Zhang, F. Li +9

Ionization injection is attractive as a controllable injection scheme for generating high quality electron beams using plasma-based wakefield acceleration. Due to the phase depende…