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20142026
most citedExact phase space matching for staging plasma and traditional accelerator components using longitudinally tailored plasma profiles

101 citations · 280 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 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-ph2025

Collider-quality electron bunches from an all-optical plasma photoinjector

Arohi Jain, Jiayang Yan, Jacob R. Pierce +11

We present a novel approach for generating collider-quality electron bunches using a plasma photoinjector. The approach leverages recently developed techniques for the spatiotempor…

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★ 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.acc-ph2023

Generation of meter-scale hydrogen plasmas and efficient, pump-depletion-limited wakefield excitation using 10 GeV electron bunches

C. Zhang, D. Storey, P. San Miguel Claveria +26

High repetition rates and efficient energy transfer to the accelerating beam are important for a future linear collider based on the beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration schem…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 1 cited

Stopping Power Enhancement From Discrete Particle-Wake Correlations in High Energy Density Plasmas

Ian N. Ellis, David J. Strozzi, Warren B. Mori +2

Three-dimensional (3D) simulations of electron beams propagating in high energy density (HED) plasmas using the quasi-static Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code QuickPIC demonstrate a sign…

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.plasm-ph2016★ 38 cited

Capturing relativistic wake eld structures in plasmas using ultrashort high-energy electrons as a probe

C. J. Zhang, J. F. Hua, X. L. Xu +8

A new method capable of capturing coherent electric field structures propagating at nearly the speed of light in plasma with a time resolution as small as a few femtoseconds is pro…

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.acc-ph2016★ 40 cited

Physical mechanism of the transverse instability in radiation pressure ion acceleration

Y. Wan, C. -H. Pai, C. J. Zhang +8

The transverse stability of the target is crucial for obtaining high quality ion beams using the laser radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) mechanism. In this letter, a theoretica…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 7 cited

Colliding ionization injection in a beam driven plasma accelerator

Y. Wan, C. J. Zhang, F. Li +7

The proposal of generating high quality electron bunches via ionization injection triggered by an counter propagating laser pulse inside a beam driven plasma wake is examined via t…

physics.acc-ph2014★ 101 cited

Exact phase space matching for staging plasma and traditional accelerator components using longitudinally tailored plasma profiles

X. L. Xu, Y. P. Wu, C. J. Zhang +10

Phase space matching between two plasma-accelerator (PA) stages and between a PA and a traditional accelerator component is a critical issue for emittance preservation of beams acc…