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most citedExtremely Dense Gamma-Ray Pulses in Electron Beam-Multifoil Collisions

43 citations · 92 across the 15 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

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-ph2025

Drive beam depletion with multi-Joule energy transfer in a plasma wakefield accelerator

R. Ariniello, V. Lee, D. Storey +7

A collider based on beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration will require the drive beam to transfer 10-100s of Joules to the plasma in each stage, with a drive-to-wake energy tra…

physics.optics2025

Demonstration of a tandem lens for producing shaped laser-ionized plasmas for plasma wakefield acceleration

R. Ariniello, V. Lee, M. D. Litos

We demonstrate a tandem lens optical setup, comprising two diffractive optics, that focuses a high-power ultrafast laser with a shaped on-axis intensity profile, producing a meter-…

physics.acc-ph2025

Precision alignment and tolerance of a plasma wakefield accelerator in a laser-ionized plasma source

Valentina Lee, Robert Ariniello, Douglas Storey +9

We present a novel method for aligning a laser ionized plasma source to a pair of ultra-relativistic electron beams that comprise a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA). We achieve…

physics.ins-det2025

A High-Flux Electron Detector System to Measure Non-linear Compton Scattering at LUXE

Antonios Athanassiadis, Robert Ariniello, Louis Helary +14

Recently, advancements in high-intensity laser technology have enabled the exploration of non-perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in strong-field regimes. Notable aspects in…

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

Experimental generation of extreme electron beams for advanced accelerator applications

Claudio Emma, Nathan Majernik, Kelly Swanson +13

In this Letter we report on the experimental generation of high energy (10 GeV), ultra-short (fs-duration), ultra-high current (0.1 MA), petawatt peak power electron beams in a par…

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

Wakefield Generation in Hydrogen and Lithium Plasmas at FACET-II: Diagnostics and First Beam-Plasma Interaction Results

D. Storey, C. Zhang, P. San Miguel Claveria +28

Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) provides ultrahigh acceleration gradients of 10s of GeV/m, providing a novel path towards efficient, compact, TeV-scale linear colliders and hi…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Temporal Evolution of the Light Emitted by a Thin, Laser-ionized Plasma Source

Valentina Lee, Robert Ariniello, Christopher Doss +6

We present an experimental and simulation-based investigation of the temporal evolution of light emission from a thin, laser-ionized Helium plasma source. We demonstrate an analyti…

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★ 14 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2022

Channeling Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures and Studies of Solid Plasmas: New Opportunities

Max F. Gilljohann, Yuliia Mankovska, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +16

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has shown illustrious progress and resulted in an impressive demonstration of tens of GeV particle acceleration in meter-long single structures…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 9 cited

Chromatic Dynamics of an Electron Beam in a Plasma Based Accelerator

R. Ariniello, C. E. Doss, V. Lee +3

We present a theoretical investigation of the chromatic dynamics of the witness beam within a plasma based accelerator. We derive the single particle motion of an electron in an io…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 19 cited

Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities

P. San Miguel Claveria, X. Davoine, J. R. Peterson +28

An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to micro-instabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the dominant instability…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 43 cited

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…