2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2025
Plasma Accelerator For Decaying Particles
Chiara Badiali, Rafael Almeida, Bernardo Malaca +3
We introduce a plasma wakefield acceleration scheme capable of boosting initially subrelativistic particles to relativistic velocities within millimeter-scale distances. A sublumin…
physics.plasm-ph2025
X-ray free-electron lasing in a flying-focus undulator
D. Ramsey, B. Malaca, T. T. Simpson +5
Laser-driven free-electron lasers (LDFELs) replace magnetostatic undulators with the electromagnetic fields of a laser pulse. Because the undulator period is half the wavelength of…