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Programmable Focal Elongation and Shaping of High-Intensity Laser Pulses using Adaptive Optics
P. Blum, A. Puchert, E. Archer +7
Controlling the intensity distribution of laser pulses in the focal region is essential for optimizing optically generated plasma waveguides and enabling advanced plasma accelerati…
Saturation of the hosing instability in quasi-linear plasma accelerators
Remi Lehe, Carl B. Schroeder, Jean-Luc Vay +2
The beam hosing instability is analyzed theoretically for a witness beam in the quasi-linear regime of plasma accelerators. In this regime, the hosing instability saturates, even f…
Multistage Coupling of Laser-Wakefield Accelerators with Curved Plasma Channel
J. Luo, M. Chen, W. Y. Wu +8
Multistage coupling of laser-wakefield accelerators is essential to overcome laser energy depletion for high-energy applications such as TeV level electron-positron colliders. Curr…
On production and asymmetric focusing of flat electron beams using rectangular capillary discharge plasmas
G. A. Bagdasarov, N. A. Bobrova, A. S. Boldarev +15
A method for the asymmetric focusing of electron bunches, based on the active plasma lensing technique is proposed. This method takes advantage of the strong inhomogeneous magnetic…
Plasma Equilibrium inside Various Cross-Section Capillary Discharges
Gennadiy Bagdasarov, Pavel Sasorov, Alexey Boldarev +13
Plasma properties inside a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide were modeled with dissipative magnetohydrodynamic simulations to enable analysis of capillaries of circular…
Laser beam coupling with capillary discharge plasma for laser wakefield acceleration applications
Gennadiy Bagdasarov, Pavel Sasorov, Vladimir Gasilov +13
One of the most robust methods, demonstrated up to date, of accelerating electron beams by laser-plasma sources is the utilization of plasma channels generated by the capillary dis…
Radiation Pressure Acceleration: the factors limiting maximum attainable ion energy
S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder +5
Radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) is a highly efficient mechanism of laser-driven ion acceleration, with with near complete transfer of the laser energy to the ions in the rela…
Enhancing proton acceleration by using composite targets
S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder +5
Efficient laser ion acceleration requires high laser intensities, which can only be obtained by tightly focusing laser radiation. In the radiation pressure acceleration regime, whe…
Ultra-low emittance beam generation using two-color ionization injection in a CO2 laser-driven plasma accelerator
C. B. Schroeder, C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov +6
Ultra-low emittance (tens of nm) beams can be generated in a plasma accelerator using ionization injection of electrons into a wakefield. An all-optical method of beam generation u…
Helium-3 and Helium-4 acceleration by high power laser pulses for hadron therapy
S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder +5
The laser driven acceleration of ions is considered a promising candidate for an ion source for hadron therapy of oncological diseases. Though proton and carbon ion sources are con…
Quasi-monoenergetic femtosecond photon sources from Thomson Scattering using laser plasma accelerators and plasma channels
S. G. Rykovanov, C. G. R. Geddes, J. -L. Vay +3
Narrow bandwidth, high energy photon sources can be generated by Thomson scattering of laser light from energetic electrons, and detailed control of the interaction is needed to pr…
Enhancement of maximum attainable ion energy in the radiation pressure acceleration regime using a guiding structure
S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder +5
Radiation Pressure Acceleration relies on high intensity laser pulse interacting with solid target to obtain high maximum energy, quasimonoenergetic ion beams. Either extremely hig…
Detecting radiation reaction at moderate laser intensities
Thomas Heinzl, Chris Harvey, Anton Ilderton +6
We propose a new method of detecting radiation reaction effects in the motion of particles subjected to laser pulses of moderate intensity and long duration. The effect becomes siz…
Low transverse emittance electron bunches from two-color laser-ionization injection
Lu-Le Yu, Eric Esarey, Jean-Luc Vay +7
A method is proposed to generate low emittance electron bunches from two color laser pulses in a laser-plasma accelerator. A two-region gas structure is used, containing a short re…
Control of focusing forces and emittances in plasma-based accelerators using near-hollow plasma channels
Carl B. Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Carlo Benedetti +1
A near-hollow plasma channel, where the plasma density in the channel is much less than the plasma density in the walls, is proposed to provide independent control over the focusin…
Laser-heater assisted plasma channel formation in capillary discharge waveguides
N. A. Bobrova, P. V. Sasorov, C. Benedetti +5
A method of creating plasma channels with controllable depth and transverse profile for the guiding of short, high power laser pulses for efficient electron acceleration is propose…
Growth and phase velocity of self-modulated beam-driven plasma waves
C. B. Schroeder, C. Benedetti, E. Esarey +2
A long, relativistic charged particle beam propagating in a plasma is subject to the self-modulation instability. This instability is analyzed and the growth rate is calculated, in…