Teravolt-per-meter plasma wakefields from low-charge, femtosecond electron beams

J. B. Rosenzweig, G. Andonian, P. Bucksbaum +14

Recent initiatives in ultra-short, GeV electron beam generation have focused on achieving sub-fs pulses for driving X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) in single-spike mode. This sch…