[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 …

Intense infrared lasers for strong-field science

Z Chang, L Fang, V Fedorov, C Geiger… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …

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 …

Pushing the frontier in the design of laser-based electron accelerators with groundbreaking mesh-refined particle-in-cell simulations on exascale-class …

L Fedeli, A Huebl, F Boillod-Cerneux… - … conference for high …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
(150 word max) We present a first-of-kind mesh-refined (MR) massively parallel Particle-In-
Cell (PIC) code for kinetic plasma simulations optimized on the Frontier, Fugaku, Summit …

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 …

Enhanced laser wakefield by beating of two co-propagating Gaussian laser pulses

V Sharma, S Kumar, N Kant, V Thakur - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
Recently, co-propagating two-color laser pulses have been extensively used to study the
attosecond pulse generation, for controlling the electron motion at femtosecond and …

Matched guiding and controlled injection in dark-current-free, 10-GeV-class, channel-guided laser-plasma accelerators

A Picksley, J Stackhouse, C Benedetti, K Nakamura… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We measure the high-intensity laser propagation throughout meter-scale, channel-guided
laser-plasma accelerators by adjusting the length of the plasma channel on a shot-by-shot …

Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

CB Schroeder, F Albert, C Benedetti… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-plasma accelerators are capable of sustaining accelerating fields of 10–100 GeV/m,
100–1000 times that of conventional technology and the highest fields produced by any of …

Circumventing the dephasing and depletion limits of laser-wakefield acceleration

A Debus, R Pausch, A Huebl, K Steiniger, R Widera… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Compact electron accelerators are paramount to next-generation synchrotron light sources
and free-electron lasers, as well as for advanced accelerators at the TeV energy frontier …

Generation and acceleration of electron bunches from a plasma photocathode

A Deng, OS Karger, T Heinemann, A Knetsch… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Plasma waves generated in the wake of intense, relativistic laser, or particle beams, can
accelerate electron bunches to gigaelectronvolt energies in centimetre-scale distances. This …