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20162026
most citedHigh quality electron bunch generation using a longitudinal density-tailored plasma-based accelerator in the three-dimensional blowout regime

74 citations · 222 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.acc-ph2026

Multi-GeV Electron Combs from a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Chaojie Zhang, Douglas Storey, Alexander Knetsch +16

Plasma accelerators now produce GeV-class electron beams with brightness and stability sufficient to drive free-electron lasers. Beyond this, they possess a unique yet largely unex…

physics.acc-ph2026

FACET2-S2E: Start-to-end simulations of the FACET-II beamline

Nathan Majernik, Frederick Cropp, Claudio Emma +1

FACET2-S2E is a Python package for start-to-end simulations of the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests-II (FACET-II), a US Department of Energy National User Facil…

physics.acc-ph2026

First results from the E302 efficiency$\unicode{x2013}$instability experiment at the FACET-II facility

O. G. Finnerud, E. Adli, R. Ariniello +18

The beam-breakup (BBU) instability in plasma accelerators is seeded by a transverse offset between the driver and a trailing bunch. The BBU instability induces oscillations in the…

physics.acc-ph2026

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…

physics.acc-ph2025

Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider

Spencer Gessner, Jens Osterhoff, Carl A. Lindstrøm +198

This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and…

physics.acc-ph2024

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…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Implementation of a Mesh refinement algorithm into the quasi-static PIC code QuickPIC

Q. Su, F. Li, W. An +8

Plasma-based acceleration (PBA) has emerged as a promising candidate for the accelerator technology used to build a future linear collider and/or an advanced light source. In PBA,…

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★ 13 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 3 cited

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…

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-ph2021★ 15 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 29 cited

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.…

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.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…