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Efficient production of Th via neutron capture in VUV-transparent crystals
Zhong-yi Chen, Hao-yang Lan, Di Wu +14
The low-lying isomeric state of Th, owing to its unique nuclear energy structure, has been widely regarded as one of the most promising candidates for the development of a…
On the relationship between the gain of Stimulated Raman Backscatter of a short-pulse laser in a plasma and the Pierce parameter for XFELs
Xinlu Xu, Warren Mori
It is shown that the convective gain of Stimulated Raman Backscatter (SRBS) within a single laser wavelength in the strongly coupled regime is equivalent to the Pierce parameter co…
Damping dynamics of the centroid oscillation of a relativistic laser pulse in a plasma channel
Yuhui Xia, Zhenan Wang, Ziyao Tang +10
The centroid oscillation of an offset laser pulse propagating in a preformed plasma channel is investigated through theoretical analysis and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simu…
Effects of realistic laser intensity and phase distribution on high-charge laser wakefield acceleration
Yuhui Xia, Zhenan Wang, Ziyao Tang +14
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) can produce relativistic electron beams and various secondary particles in centimeter-long plasmas, making it a valuable particle source with im…
Nanometer-scale pre-bunched electron beams generated from all-optical plasma-based acceleration
Zhenan Wang, Zewei Xu, Qianyi Ma +7
High-quality and prebunched electron beams can produce coherent x-rays with high intensity and narrow bandwidth, which is essential for modern light sources. An all-optical scheme…
Generating 10 GW-class isolated zeptosecond x-ray bursts through bootstrapping two plasma-based accelerator stages
Qianyi Ma, Yuhui Xia, Zhenan Wang +8
A method is proposed to generate coherent, intense zeptosecond x-ray pulses by using the electron beam produced by a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) stage as the driver for a be…
A fully plasma based electron injector for a linear collider or XFEL
Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Xinlu L. Xu, Fei Li +2
We demonstrate through high-fidelity particle-in-cell simulations a simple approach for efficiently generating 20+ GeV electron beams with the necessary charge, energy spread, and…
Ultra-short lifetime isomer studies from photonuclear reactions using laser-driven ultra-intense γ-ray
Di Wu, Haoyang Lan, Jiaxing Liu +29
Isomers, ubiquitous populations of relatively long-lived nuclear excited states, play a crucial role in nuclear physics. However, isomers with half-life times of several seconds or…
On the generation of attosecond gigawatt soft X-ray pulses through coherent Thomson backscattering
Qianyi Ma, Jiaxin Liu, Zhuo Pan +8
Collision between relativistic electron sheets and counter-propagating laser pulses is recognized as a promising way to produce intense attosecond X-rays through coherent Thomson b…
Extremely powerful and frequency-tunable terahertz pulses from a table-top laser-plasma wiggler
Jie Cai, Yinren Shou, Yixing Geng +6
The production of broadband, terawatt terahertz (THz) pulses has been demonstrated by irradiating relativistic lasers on solid targets. However, the generation of extremely powerfu…
On the generation of ultra-bright and low energy spread electron beams in laser wakefield acceleration in a uniform plasma
Xinlu Xu, Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Jiaxin Liu +5
The quality of electron beams produced from plasma-based accelerators, i.e., normalized brightness and energy spread, has made transformative progress in the past several decades i…
Ultra-compact attosecond X-ray free-electron lasers utilizing unique beams from plasma-based acceleration and an optical undulator
Xinlu Xu, Jiaxin Liu, Thamine Dalichaouch +7
Accelerator-based X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are the latest addition to the revolutionary tools of discovery for the 21st century. The two major components of an XFEL are a…
Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions
A. Matheron, P. San Miguel Claveria, R. Ariniello +21
Ongoing progress in laser and accelerator technology opens new possibilities in high-field science, notably to investigate the largely unexplored strong-field quantum electrodynami…
Efficient Generation of Tunable Magnetic and Optical Vortices Using Plasmas
Yipeng Wu, Xinlu Xu, Chaojie Zhang +8
Plasma is an attractive medium for generating strong microscopic magnetic structures and tunable electromagnetic radiation with predictable topologies due to its extraordinary abil…
Generation of topologically complex three-dimensional electron beams in a plasma photocathode
Xinlu Xu, Jorge Vieira, Mark Hogan +2
Laser-triggered ionization injection is a promising way of generating controllable high-quality electrons in plasma-based acceleration. We show that ionization injection of electro…
Ultra-Bright Electron Bunch Injection in a Plasma Wakefield Driven by a Superluminal Flying Focus Electron Beam
Fei Li, Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Jacob R. Pierce +5
We propose a new method for self-injection of high-quality electron bunches in the plasma wakefield structure in the blowout regime utilizing a "flying focus" produced by a drive b…
A multi-sheath model for highly nonlinear plasma wakefields
Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Xinlu Xu, Adam Tableman +3
An improved description for nonlinear plasma wakefields with phase velocities near the speed of light is presented and compared against fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations.…
Generation and acceleration of high brightness electrons beams bunched at X-ray wavelengths using plasma-based acceleration
Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, Frank S. Tsung +5
We show using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and theoretical analysis that a high-quality electron beam whose density is modulated at angstrom scales can be generated directly…
Extremely Dense Gamma-Ray Pulses in Electron Beam-Multifoil Collisions
Archana Sampath, Xavier Davoine, Sébastien Corde +26
Sources of high-energy photons have important applications in almost all areas of research. However, the photon flux and intensity of existing sources is strongly limited for photo…
Generation of terawatt, attosecond pulses from relativistic transition radiation
Xinlu Xu, David B. Cesar, Sébastien Corde +5
When a fs duration and hundreds of kA peak current electron beam traverses the vacuum and high-density plasma interface a new process, that we call relativistic transition radiatio…
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…
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…
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…
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…