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Thermal Weibel instability induced magnetic fields co-exist with linear wakes in laser-ionized plasmas
Yipeng Wu, Audrey Farrell, Mitchell Sinclair +12
When a moderately intense, few-picoseconds long laser pulse ionizes gas to produce an underdense plasma column, a linear relativistic plasma wave or wake can be excited by the self…
Mapping the self-generated magnetic fields due to thermal Weibel instability
Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Mitchell Sinclair +15
Weibel-type instability can self-generate and amplify magnetic fields in both space and laboratory plasmas with temperature anisotropy. The electron Weibel instability has generall…
Electron Weibel instability induced magnetic fields in optical-field ionized plasmas
Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Mitchell Sinclair +14
Generation and amplification of magnetic fields in plasmas is a long-standing topic that is of great interest to both plasma and space physics. The electron Weibel instability is a…
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities
P. San Miguel Claveria, X. Davoine, J. R. Peterson +28
An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to micro-instabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the dominant instability…
Evolution of the self-injection process in the transition of an LWFA from self-modulation to blowout regime
Prabhat Kumar, Kwangmin Yu, Rafal Zgadzaj +5
Long wavelength infrared (LWIR) laser driven plasma wakefield accelerators are investigated here in the self-modulated laser wakefield acceleration (SM-LWFA) and blowout regimes us…
9 GeV Energy Gain in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
M Litos, E Adli, J M Allen +15
An electron beam has gained a maximum energy of 9 GeV per particle in a 1.3 m-long electron beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. The amount of charge accelerated in the spectr…
Satisfying the Direct Laser Acceleration Resonance Condition in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
J. L. Shaw, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, K. A. Marsh +4
In this proceeding, we show that when the drive laser pulse overlaps the trapped electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA), those electrons can gain energy from direct lase…
Role of direct laser acceleration in energy gained by electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection
J L Shaw, F S Tsung, N Vafaei-Najafabadi +4
We have investigated the role that the transverse electric field of the laser plays in the acceleration of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) operating in the quasi-…