Title :
Generation of femtosecond electron bunches and hard-X-rays by ultraintense laser wake field acceleration in a gas jet
Author :
Uesaka, M. ; Hosokai, T. ; Kinoshita, K. ; Zhidkov, A.
Author_Institution :
Nucl. Eng. Res. Lab., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Femtosecond electron beams and hard X-rays with λ∼0.1 nm may find various applications in biology, chemistry, and molectronics giving a new time-scale probe analysis. Such short electron beams can be produced in the wake field acceleration by short relativistically intense laser pulses and then Thomson scattering of a second laser pulse can serve for efficient generation of very short X-rays with use of such electron beams.
Keywords :
X-ray production; particle beam bunching; particle beam injection; plasma accelerators; plasma simulation; relativistic electron beams; wakefield accelerators; Thomson scattering; biology; chemistry; femtosecond electron beams; femtosecond electron bunches generation; gas jet; hard-X-rays generation; molectronics; particle-in-cell calculation; second laser pulse; self-injection; short X-rays; short relativistic intense laser pulses; time-scale probe analysis; ultraintense laser wake field acceleration; Acceleration; Biochemical analysis; Chemical lasers; Chemistry; Electron beams; Gas lasers; Optical pulse generation; Probes; X-ray lasers; X-ray scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7738-9
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2003.1289084
