Prospects for free-electron lasers powered by plasma-wakefield-accelerated beams

M Galletti, R Assmann, ME Couprie, M Ferrario… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Plasma-wakefield-based acceleration technology has the potential to revolutionize the field
of particle accelerators. By providing acceleration gradients orders of magnitude larger than …

Free-electron lasing with compact beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator

R Pompili, D Alesini, MP Anania, S Arjmand… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The possibility to accelerate electron beams to ultra-relativistic velocities over short
distances by using plasma-based technology holds the potential for a revolution in the field …

Seeded free-electron laser driven by a compact laser plasma accelerator

M Labat, JC Cabadağ, A Ghaith, A Irman, A Berlioux… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Free-electron lasers generate high-brilliance coherent radiation at wavelengths spanning
from the infrared to the X-ray domains. The recent development of short-wavelength seeded …

Coherent free-electron light sources

D Zhang, Y Zeng, Y Tian, R Li - Photonics Insights, 2023‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Free-electron light sources feature extraordinary luminosity, directionality, and coherence,
which has enabled significant scientific progress in fields including physics, chemistry, and …

Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimization

RJ Shalloo, SJD Dann, JN Gruse… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Laser wakefield accelerators promise to revolutionize many areas of accelerator science.
However, one of the greatest challenges to their widespread adoption is the difficulty in …

On the feasibility of future colliders: report of the Snowmass' 21 Implementation Task Force

T Roser, R Brinkmann, S Cousineau… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Colliders are essential research tools for particle physics. Numerous future collider proposal
were discussed in the course of the US high energy physics community strategic planning …

Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide

K Oubrerie, A Leblanc, O Kononenko… - Light: Science & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce electric fields of the order of 100 GV m− 1, more
than 1000 times larger than those produced by radio-frequency accelerators. These …

Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

CB Schroeder, F Albert, C Benedetti… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-plasma accelerators are capable of sustaining accelerating fields of 10–100 GeV/m,
100–1000 times that of conventional technology and the highest fields produced by any of …

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 …

Breakdown insensitive acceleration regime in a metamaterial accelerating structure

D Merenich, B Leung, G Rijal, X Lu, S Doran… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2024‏ - APS
A new regime in radiofrequency (rf) breakdown, named the breakdown insensitive
acceleration regime (BIAR), was observed in an 11.7 GHz metamaterial structure for …