• DocumentCode
    2258024
  • Title

    Self-injected petawatt laser-driven plasma electron acceleration in 1017 cm−3 plasma

  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951370
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2258024