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physics.plasm-ph2026
Electron Injection and Beam Dynamics in a Laser Wakefield Acceleration Driven by Laser Pulses Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum
Q. Qian, M. Li, Y. Ma +21
Laser pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide a new degree of freedom for controlling plasma-based accelerators. Here, we demonstrate experimentally laser wakefield…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Transversely pumped laser driven particle accelerator
Tanner Nutting, Nicholas Ernst, Alexander G. R. Thomas +1
We present a new acceleration scheme capable of accelerating electrons and ions in an underdense plasma. Transversely Pumped Acceleration (TPA) uses multiple arrays of counter-prop…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Orbital angular momentum enhanced laser absorption and neutron generation
Nicholas Peskosky, Nicholas Ernst, Miloš Burger +5
We experimentally demonstrate enhanced absorption of near relativistic optical vortex beams in plasmas to generate a record fast-neutron yield of …