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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…
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…
Accurately simulating nine-dimensional phase space of relativistic particles in strong fields
Fei Li, Viktor K. Decyk, Kyle G. Miller +5
Next-generation high-power lasers that can be focused to intensities exceeding 10^23 W/cm^2 are enabling new physics and applications. The physics of how these lasers interact with…
High-throughput injection-acceleration of electron bunches from a linear accelerator to a laser wakefield accelerator
Yipeng Wu, Jianfei Hua, Zheng Zhou +13
Plasma-based accelerators (PBAs) driven by either intense lasers (laser wakefield accelerators, LWFAs) or particle beams (plasma wakefield accelerators, PWFAs), can accelerate char…
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…
Relativistic, single-cycle tunable-infrared pulses generated by a tailored plasma density structure
Zan Nie, Chih-Hao Pai, Jianfei Hua +16
The availability of intense, ultrashort coherent radiation sources in the infrared region of the spectrum is enabling the generation of attosecond X-ray pulses via high harmonic ge…
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…
Generating 10~40MeV high quality monoenergetic electron beams using a 5TW 60fs laser at Tsinghua University
J. F. Hua, L. X. Yan, C. H. Pai +10
A unique facility for laser plasma physics and advanced accelerator research has been built recently at Tsinghua Universtiy. This system is based on Tsinghua Thomson scattering X-r…