Advanced technologies for applied particle accelerators and examples of their use

SV Kutsaev - Technical Physics, 2021 - Springer
This review presents the author's view on modern trends in the development of charged
particle accelerators for various applications, which is based on his own experience in this …

Physics of high-charge electron beams in laser-plasma wakefields

J Götzfried, A Döpp, MF Gilljohann, FM Foerster… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) and its particle-driven counterpart, particle or plasma
wakefield acceleration (PWFA), are commonly treated as separate, though related, branches …

Perspectives on the generation of electron beams from plasma-based accelerators and their near and long term applications

C Joshi, S Corde, WB Mori - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This article first gives the authors' perspectives on how the field of plasma-based
acceleration (PBA) developed and how the current experiments, theory, and simulations are …

[HTML][HTML] Principles and applications of x-ray light sources driven by laser wakefield acceleration

F Albert - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
One of the most prominent applications of modern particle accelerators is the generation of
radiation. In a synchrotron or an x-ray free electron laser (XFEL), high energy electrons …

Enhanced laser wakefield acceleration utilizing Hermite–Gaussian laser pulses in homogeneous plasma

V Sharma, V Thakur - Journal of Optics, 2023 - Springer
The paper investigates the phenomenon of laser wakefield acceleration in a collisionless
underdense plasma using Hermite–Gaussian laser pulses. Laser wakefield acceleration is a …

Gev-scale accelerators driven by plasma-modulated pulses from kilohertz lasers

O Jakobsson, SM Hooker, R Walczak - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We describe a new approach for driving GeV-scale plasma accelerators with long laser
pulses. We show that the temporal phase of a long, high-energy driving laser pulse can be …

Realizing attosecond core-level X-ray spectroscopy for the investigation of condensed matter systems

AM Summers, S Severino, M Reduzzi… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Unraveling the exact nature of nonequilibrium and correlated interactions is paramount for
continued progress in many areas of condensed matter science. Such insight is a …

Stable and high-quality electron beams from staged laser and plasma wakefield accelerators

FM Foerster, A Döpp, F Haberstroh, K Grafenstein… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We present experimental results on a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) driven by high-
current electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA). In this staged setup …

Single-shot multi-keV X-ray absorption spectroscopy using an ultrashort laser-wakefield accelerator source

B Kettle, E Gerstmayr, MJV Streeter, F Albert… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Single-shot absorption measurements have been performed using the multi-keV x rays
generated by a laser-wakefield accelerator. A 200 TW laser was used to drive a laser …

Bright betatron x-rays generation from picosecond laser interactions with long-scale near critical density plasmas

XF Shen, A Pukhov, MM Günther… - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Our previous experimental and three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation
results demonstrated that a well-directed electron beam with space charge of about μC and …