Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of
extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense …

Plasma-wakefield-based acceleration technology has the potential to revolutionize the field
of particle accelerators. By providing acceleration gradients orders of magnitude larger than …

Plasma wakefield accelerators use tabletop equipment to produce relativistic femtosecond
electron bunches. Optical and X-ray diagnostics have established that their charge …

We describe a simple scheme, truncated-channel injection, to inject electrons directly into
the wakefield driven by a high-intensity laser pulse guided in an all-optical plasma channel …

Accelerator-based x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are the latest addition to the
revolutionary tools of discovery for the 21st century. The two major components of an XFEL …

Plasma wakefield acceleration represented a breakthrough in the field of particle
accelerators by pushing beams to gigaelectronvolt energies within centimeter distances …

The complete knowledge of electron bunch properties is of great interest to understand and
optimize the performance of accelerators and their applications. A new tomographic beam …

This article presents a demonstration of the improved performance of an X-ray free-electron
laser (FEL) using the optical klystron mechanism and helical undulator configuration, in …

The SPARC_LAB test facility at the LNF (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome) holds a
high brightness photo-injector used to investigate advanced beam manipulation techniques …

Developing complex, reliable advanced accelerators requires a coordinated, extensible,
and comprehensive approach in modeling, from source to the end of beam lifetime. We …