Direct laser acceleration in underdense plasmas with multi-PW lasers: a path to high-charge, GeV-class electron bunches

R Babjak, L Willingale, A Arefiev, M Vranic - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide
hundreds of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available …

Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration in the bubble regime

KG Miller, JR Pierce, MV Ambat, JL Shaw… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) have electric fields that are orders of magnitude
larger than those of conventional accelerators, promising an attractive, small-scale …

Direct laser acceleration in varying plasma density profiles

R Babjak, B Martinez, M Krus, M Vranic - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.10702, 2024 - arxiv.org
Direct laser acceleration has proven to be an efficient source of high-charge electron
bunches and high brilliance X-rays. However, an analytical description of the acceleration in …

Tunable Energy Spectrum Betatron X-ray Sources in Plasma Wakefield

CY **, YR Shou, LQ Han, A Ablimit, XD Liu… - Chinese …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The X-ray source with tunable energy spectrum has a wide range of application
requirements in different scenarios because of its different penetration. However, existing X …