[HTML][HTML] EuPRAXIA conceptual design report

RW Assmann, MK Weikum, T Akhter, D Alesini… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV

X Wang, R Zgadzaj, N Fazel, Z Li, SA Yi… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators of only a centimetre's length have produced nearly
monoenergetic electron bunches with energy as high as 1 GeV. Scaling these compact …

Enhancement of electron energy to the multi-GeV regime by a dual-stage laser-wakefield accelerator pumped by petawatt laser pulses

HT Kim, KH Pae, HJ Cha, IJ Kim, TJ Yu, JH Sung… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Laser-wakefield acceleration offers the promise of a compact electron accelerator for
generating a multi-GeV electron beam using the huge field gradient induced by an intense …

Stable multi-GeV electron accelerator driven by waveform-controlled PW laser pulses

HT Kim, VB Pathak, K Hong Pae, A Lifschitz, F Sylla… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The achievable energy and the stability of accelerated electron beams have been the most
critical issues in laser wakefield acceleration. As laser propagation, plasma wave formation …

Observation of longitudinal and transverse self-injections in laser-plasma accelerators

S Corde, C Thaury, A Lifschitz, G Lambert… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators can produce high-quality electron beams, up to giga
electronvolts in energy, from a centimetre scale device. The properties of the electron beams …

Electron self-injection into an evolving plasma bubble: Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration in the blowout regime

SY Kalmykov, A Beck, SA Yi, VN Khudik… - Physics of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
An electron density bubble driven in a rarefied uniform plasma by a slowly evolving laser
pulse goes through periods of adiabatically slow expansions and contractions. Bubble …

Numerical investigation of electron self-injection in the nonlinear bubble regime

C Benedetti, CB Schroeder, E Esarey, F Rossi… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The process of electron self-injection in the nonlinear bubble wake generated by a short and
intense laser pulse propagating in a uniform underdense plasma is studied by means of fully …

Improved performance of laser wakefield acceleration by tailored self-truncated ionization injection

A Irman, JP Couperus, A Debus, A Köhler… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on tailoring ionization-induced injection in laser wakefield acceleration so that the
electron injection process is self-truncating following the evolution of the plasma bubble …

Generalized algorithm for control of numerical dispersion in explicit<? format?> time-domain electromagnetic simulations

BM Cowan, DL Bruhwiler, JR Cary… - Physical Review Special …, 2013 - APS
We describe a modification to the finite-difference time-domain algorithm for
electromagnetics on a Cartesian grid which eliminates numerical dispersion error in vacuum …

Focus on laser-and beam-driven plasma accelerators

C Joshi, V Malka - New Journal of Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The ability of short but intense laser pulses to generate high-energy electrons and ions from
gaseous and solid targets has been well known since the early days of the laser fusion …