Author :
Wang, X. ; Zgadzaj, R. ; Henderson, W. ; Yi, A.S. ; Kalmykov, S. ; Khudik, V. ; Avignon, E.D. ; Dong, P. ; Fazel, N. ; Korzekwa, R. ; Chang, Y.-Y. ; Tsai, Hai-En ; Dyer, G. ; Gaul, E. ; Martinez, M. ; Borger, T. ; Aymond, F. ; Hammond, D. ; Escamilla, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
We report observation of electron self-injection and acceleration in a plasma accelerator driven by the Texas petawatt laser at 1017 cm-3 plasma density, an order of magnitude lower density than previous self-injected laser-plasma accelerators.
Keywords :
plasma accelerators; plasma density; plasma light propagation; Texas petawatt laser; electron self-injection; plasma density; self-injected laser-plasma accelerators; self-injected petawatt laser-driven plasma electron acceleration; Acceleration; Electron accelerators; Laser beams; Particle beams; Plasma accelerators; Plasma density;
