Matched guiding and controlled injection in dark-current-free, 10-GeV-class, channel-guided laser-plasma accelerators

A Picksley, J Stackhouse, C Benedetti, K Nakamura… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We measure the high-intensity laser propagation throughout meter-scale, channel-guided
laser-plasma accelerators by adjusting the length of the plasma channel on a shot-by-shot …

Creation and direct laser acceleration of positrons in a single stage

B Martinez, B Barbosa, M Vranic - Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2023 - APS
Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field
QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and …

Strong-field QED experiments using the BELLA PW laser dual beamlines

M Turner, SS Bulanov, C Benedetti… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
The petawatt (PW) laser facility of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center has
recently commissioned its second laser pulse transport line. This new beamline can be …

Demonstration of kilohertz operation of hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized plasma channels

A Alejo, J Cowley, A Picksley, R Walczak… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate experimentally that hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized (HOFI) plasma
channels can be generated at kHz-scale pulse repetition rates, in a static gas cell and for an …

Laser Wakefield Acceleration in a Plasma Channel

MS Dorozhkina, KV Baluev, DD Kutergin… - Bulletin of the Lebedev …, 2023 - Springer
It is shown by numerical simulations that, if a laser pulse from the eXawatt Center for
Extreme Light Studies (Sarov) is used as a driver for a laser wakefield accelerator, an …

Radial density profile and stability of capillary discharge plasma waveguides of lengths up to 40 cm

M Turner, AJ Gonsalves, SS Bulanov… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We measured the parameter reproducibility and radial electron density profile of capillary
discharge waveguides with diameters of 650%. These variations explain only a small …

Snowmass21 accelerator modeling community white paper

S Biedron, L Brouwer, DL Bruhwiler, NM Cook… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
After a summary of relevant comments and recommendations from various reports over the
last ten years, this paper examines the modeling needs in accelerator physics, from the …

Investigation of the Way of Phase Synchronization of a Self-Injected Bunch and an Accelerating Wakefield in Solid-State Plasma

VI Maslov, DS Bondar, IN Onishchenko - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The electron acceleration, in a laser wakefield accelerator, controlled through plasma
density inhomogeneity is studied on a basis of 2.5-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation …

Creation of an axially uniform plasma channel in a laser-assisted capillary discharge

GA Bagdasarov, NA Bobrova, OG Olkhovskaya… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Dissipative capillary discharges form plasma channels which allow for high power laser
guiding, enabling efficient electron acceleration in a laser wakefield accelerator. However, at …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation observation of high effectiveness laser plasma wakefield accelerator using plasma telescope configuration

M Zeng - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the laser wakefield accelerators, the energy transfer efficiency from the laser to the
electron beam and the energy spread of the electron beam are parameters of contradiction …