MeV-Energy X Rays from Inverse Compton Scattering with Laser-Wakefield<? format?> Accelerated Electrons

S Chen, ND Powers, I Ghebregziabher, CM Maharjan… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We report the generation of MeV x rays using an undulator and accelerator that are both
driven by the same 100-terawatt laser system. The laser pulse driving the accelerator and …

Particle beam radiography

K Peach, C Ekdahl - Reviews of Accelerator Science and …, 2013 - World Scientific
Particle beam radiography, which uses a variety of particle probes (neutrons, protons,
electrons, gammas and potentially other particles) to study the structure of materials and …

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 …

Stable, tunable, quasimonoenergetic electron beams produced in a laser wakefield<? format?> near the threshold for self-injection

S Banerjee, SY Kalmykov, ND Powers, G Golovin… - Physical Review Special …, 2013 - APS
Stable operation of a laser-plasma accelerator near the threshold for electron self-injection
in the blowout regime has been demonstrated with 25–60 TW, 30 fs laser pulses focused …

Laser-driven low energy electron beams for single-shot ultra-fast probing of meso-scale materials and warm dense matter

K Falk, M Šmíd, K Boháček, U Chaulagain, Y Gu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Laser wakefield acceleration has proven to be an excellent source of electrons and X-rays
suitable for ultra-fast probing of matter. These novel beams have demonstrated …

Electron radiography using a table-top laser-cluster plasma accelerator

GC Bussolino, A Faenov, A Giulietti… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the use of a laser-based electron gun for applications in transmission electron
radiography and microscopy at electron energies up to 2 MeV. This new approach holds the …

Generation of tunable, 100–800 MeV quasi-monoenergetic electron beams from a laser-wakefield accelerator in the blowout regime

S Banerjee, ND Powers, V Ramanathan… - Physics of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we present results on a scalable high-energy electron source based on laser
wakefield acceleration. The electron accelerator using 30–80 TW, 30 fs laser pulses …

Absolute calibration of imaging plate detectors for electron kinetic energies between 150 keV and 1.75 MeV

S Singh, T Slavicek, R Hodak, R Versaci… - Review of Scientific …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the calibration of two different kinds of image plates (IPs) for detecting
electrons with kinetic energy in the range of 150 keV–1.75 MeV. The calibration was …

Electron acceleration and generation of high-brilliance x-ray radiation in kilojoule, subpicosecond laser-plasma interactions

J Ferri, X Davoine, SY Kalmykov, A Lifschitz - Physical Review Accelerators and …, 2016 - APS
Petawatt, picosecond laser pulses offer rich opportunities in generating synchrotron x-rays.
This paper concentrates on the regimes accessible with the PETAL laser, which is a part of …

Compact source of narrowband and tunable X-rays for radiography

S Banerjee, S Chen, N Powers, D Haden, C Liu… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We discuss the development of a compact X-ray source based on inverse-Compton
scattering with a laser-driven electron beam. This source produces a beam of high-energy X …