Title :
Acceleration of injected electrons in a laser beatwave experiment
Author :
Tochitsky, S.Ya. ; Narang, R. ; Filip, C.V. ; Musumechi, P. ; Clayton, C.E. ; Yoder, R. ; Marsh, K.A. ; Rosenzweig, J.B. ; Pellegrini, C. ; Joshi, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A 10-ps beam of 12 MeV electrons was loaded in a 1-cm long plasma beat wave accelerator driven by a TW CO2 laser pulse. CO2 laser pulses and electron bunches were deterministically synchronized with an uncertainty of 20 ps. At the resonant electron plasma density of ∼1016 cm-3 the electrons have been accelerated to 22 MeV with a gradient of ∼ 1 GeV/m.
Keywords :
electron accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam injection; plasma accelerators; plasma density; CO2 laser pulses; TW CO2 laser pulse; electron bunches; injected electrons acceleration; laser beatwave experiment; plasma beat wave accelerator; resonant electron plasma density; Acceleration; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Laser beams; Optical pulses; Particle beams; Plasma accelerators; Plasma density; Plasma waves; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7738-9
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2003.1288704
