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 …

Towards the optimisation of direct laser acceleration

AE Hussein, AV Arefiev, T Batson, H Chen… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental measurements using the OMEGA EP laser facility demonstrated direct laser
acceleration (DLA) of electron beams to (505±75) MeV with (140±30) nC of charge from a …

Microcoulomb (0.7 ± μC) laser plasma accelerator on OMEGA EP

JL Shaw, MA Romo-Gonzalez, N Lemos, PM King… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) driven by picosecond-scale, kilojoule-class lasers can
generate particle beams and x-ray sources that could be utilized in experiments driven by …

Free electron lasers driven by plasma accelerators: status and near-term prospects

C Emma, J Van Tilborg, R Assmann… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Owing to their ultra-high accelerating gradients, combined with injection inside micrometer-
scale accelerating wakefield buckets, plasma-based accelerators hold great potential to …

Signatures of linear Breit-Wheeler pair production in polarized collisions

Q Zhao, L Tang, F Wan, BC Liu, RY Liu, RZ Yang… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The polarization characteristics of the linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pair-production process in
polarized γ γ colliders have been investigated via our developed spin-resolved binary …

High-brightness betatron emission from the interaction of a sub picosecond laser pulse with pre-ionized low-density polymer foam for ICF research

M Gyrdymov, J Cikhardt, P Tavana, NG Borisenko… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in plasmas of near-critical density (NCD) is a
very advancing platform for high-energy PW-class lasers of moderate relativistic intensity …

A laser–plasma platform for photon–photon physics: the two photon Breit–Wheeler process

B Kettle, D Hollatz, E Gerstmayr… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a laser–plasma platform for photon–photon collision experiments to measure
fundamental quantum electrodynamic processes. As an example we describe using this …

Experimental study of medical isotopes 62, 64Cu and 68Ga production using intense picosecond laser pulse

Z Cao, W Qi, H Lan, B Cui, X Zhang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Radioisotopes are indispensable agents in medical diagnosis and treatment, among which
copper-62, 64 (62, 64 Cu) and gallium-68 (68 Ga) are medical isotopes widely used in …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray sources using a picosecond laser driven plasma accelerator

N Lemos, P King, JL Shaw, AL Milder, KA Marsh… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Laser-plasma-based accelerators are now able to provide the scientific community with
novel high-energy light sources that are essential to study high-energy density matter …