Dephasingless plasma wakefield photon acceleration

R Sandberg, AGR Thomas - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Sandberg and Thomas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085001 (2023) 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett. 130.085001] proposed a scheme to generate ultrashort, high-energy …

Analysis of the blowout plasma wakefields produced by drive beams with elliptical symmetry

P Manwani, Y Kang, J Mann, B Naranjo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the underdense (blowout) regime of plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA), the particle
beam is denser than the plasma. Under these conditions, the plasma electrons are nearly …

Dynamics of fiber optic airgun bubbles for micropropulsion

H Li, X Yang, G Zhou, J Sun, Y Chen, X Tang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
While extensive research on pressure wave emissions from meter-scale airgun bubbles, the
dynamics at the microscale, particularly regarding fiber laser-induced bubble generation …

[HTML][HTML] Transformer ratio growth due to ion motion in plasma wakefield accelerators

VA Minakov, KV Lotov - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We report a recently discovered counterintuitive effect where breaking of a Langmuir wave
in a plasma wakefield accelerator leads to an increase in the accelerating field rather than …

[HTML][HTML] Bounds on geometric wakefields in collimators and step transitions of arbitrary cross sections

LA Shaposhnikov, SS Baturin - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present the wakefield conformal mapping technique that can be readily applied to the
analysis of the radiation generated by an ultra-relativistic particle in the step transition and a …

Coherent Subcycle Optical Shock from a Superluminal Plasma Wake

H Peng, TW Huang, K Jiang, R Li, CN Wu, MY Yu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We propose exploiting the superluminal plasma wake for coherent Cherenkov radiation by
injecting a relativistic electron beam (REB) into a plasma with a slowly varying density up …

Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields

C Hue, A Golovanov, S Tata, S Corde… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We study the stability of plasma wake wave and the properties of density-downramp
injection in an electron-driven plasma accelerator. In this accelerator type, a short high …

A Platform for All-optical Thomson/Compton Scattering with Versatile Parameters

S Chen, W Yan, M Zhu, Y Li, X Hu, H Xu, J Feng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A dual-beam platform for all-optical electron-photon scattering, or Thomson/Compton
scattering, with adjustable collision-angle and parameter tuning ability has been developed …

LCODE: Quasistatic code for simulating long-term evolution of three-dimensional plasma wakefields

IY Kargapolov, NV Okhotnikov, IA Shalimova… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A recently developed three-dimensional version of the quasistatic code LCODE has a novel
feature that enables high-accuracy simulations of the long-term evolution of waves in …

[HTML][HTML] Laser propulsion of microsphere in water using tapered fiber-induced shock wave

Y Ge, G Zhou, X Yang, Y Chen, X Tang, H Li - AIP Advances, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The driving experiment of SiO 2 microspheres in a water environment was carried out by
using tapered fiber microstructures to transmit short pulse lasers. The fiber microstructure …