Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

[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 …

Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometres based on a laser wakefield accelerator

W Wang, K Feng, L Ke, C Yu, Y Xu, R Qi, Y Chen, Z Qin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers can generate intense and coherent radiation at wavelengths down
to the sub-ångström region,,,–, and have become indispensable tools for applications in …

Experimental evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of a high-intensity laser pulse with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam

JM Cole, KT Behm, E Gerstmayr, TG Blackburn… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily
influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration …

Decoding sources of energy variability in a laser-plasma accelerator

AR Maier, NM Delbos, T Eichner, L Hübner, S Jalas… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Laser-plasma acceleration promises compact sources of high-brightness relativistic electron
beams. However, the limited stability often associated with laser-plasma acceleration has …

Multi-GeV electron beams from capillary-discharge-guided subpetawatt laser pulses in the self-trapping regime

WP Leemans, AJ Gonsalves, HS Mao, K Nakamura… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Multi-GeV electron beams with energy up to 4.2 GeV, 6% rms energy spread, 6 pC charge,
and 0.3 mrad rms divergence have been produced from a 9-cm-long capillary discharge …

Petawatt laser guiding and electron beam acceleration to 8 GeV in a laser-heated capillary discharge waveguide

AJ Gonsalves, K Nakamura, J Daniels, C Benedetti… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Guiding of relativistically intense laser pulses with peak power of 0.85 PW over 15 diffraction
lengths was demonstrated by increasing the focusing strength of a capillary discharge …

Multistage coupling of independent laser-plasma accelerators

S Steinke, J Van Tilborg, C Benedetti, CGR Geddes… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) are capable of accelerating charged particles to very high
energies in very compact structures. In theory, therefore, they offer advantages over …

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 …

Near-GeV electron beams at a few per-mille level from a laser wakefield accelerator via density-tailored plasma

LT Ke, K Feng, WT Wang, ZY Qin, CH Yu, Y Wu… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
A simple, efficient scheme was developed to obtain near-gigaelectronvolt electron beams
with energy spreads of few per-mille level in a single-stage laser wakefield accelerator …