11 papers
Plasma wakefield dynamics of self-generated electron bunch trains
Salome Benracassa, Sheroy Tata, Yinren shou +2
Laser plasma accelerators can deliver high-energy, quasi-monoenergetic electron beams over centimeter-scale distances. In this work, we report on the generation of narrow, quasi-mo…
Electron Acceleration in a Flying-Focus Laser Wakefield Accelerator
Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Slava Smartsev +3
Structured light pulses hold significant promise for their ability to overcome dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators, that should facilitate applications in high-energy physics…
Enhanced dynamic range spatio-spectral metrology of few-cycle laser pulses
Cristian Alexe, Aaron Liberman, Saga Westerberg +13
Accurate spatio-temporal and spatio-spectral metrology is critical to the characterization and use of ultra-short, high-power lasers. The emergence of few cycle pulses, with bandwi…
Experimental evidence of production of directional muons from a laser-wakefield accelerator
L. Calvin, E. Gerstmayr, C. Arran +19
We report on experimental evidence of the generation of directional muons from a laser-wakefield accelerator driven by a PW-class laser. The muons were generated following the inte…
First Electron Acceleration in a Tunable-Velocity Laser Wakefield
Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Slava Smartsev +3
We present the first experimental confirmation that a laser-wakefield accelerator produced by a flying focus pulse is able to maintain the coherent structures necessary to accelera…
Probing Flying-Focus Wakefields
Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Sheroy Tata +2
Flying-focus wakefields, which can propagate with a tunable velocity along the optical axis, are promising solutions to electron dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators. This is…