High-energy electron beams produced by a Laser Wakefield accelerator

Author

Lopes, Cristiano ; Russo, Carmine ; Bendoyro, R.A. ; Jiang, Jianliang ; Dias, J.M. ; Lemos, Nuno ; Vieira, J. ; Silva, L.O. ; Bloom, Michael ; Cole, Jeremy ; Kneip, Stefan ; Mangles, S.P.D. ; Najmudin, Zulfikar ; Symes, Daniel R. ; Foster, Peter ; Pattath

Author_Institution

Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

8-13 July 2012

Abstract

Summary form only given. A Laser-Wakefiled acceleration (LWFA) experiment, aiming the production of high-quality electron relativistic beams, was performed at Astra-Gemini Laser Facility. The interaction was used sub-50 fs laser pulses with energies in the range 4 - 10 J and structured gas cells with lengths of 2 - 4 cm filled with hydrogen as target. Reliable and reproducible electron beams with energies close to 1 GeV were produced in a single stage. The use of plasma channels to enhance the acceleration process was also tested resulting in a significant energy gain signature.

Keywords

electron accelerators; electron sources; high-speed optical techniques; plasma accelerators; relativistic electron beams; wakefield accelerators; Astra-Gemini laser facility; H; energy gain signature; high energy electron beam; high quality electron relativistic beam; laser pulse interaction; laser wakefield accelerator; structured gas cell; Acceleration; Educational institutions; Electron beams; Gas lasers; Laboratories; Laser beams; Plasmas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2012 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2127-4

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2012.6383996

Filename

6383996