Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators

S Corde, K Ta Phuoc, G Lambert, R Fitour, V Malka… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the
emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from …

Diagnostics for plasma-based electron accelerators

MC Downer, R Zgadzaj, A Debus, U Schramm… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Plasma-based accelerators that impart energy gain as high as several GeV to electrons or
positrons within a few centimeters have engendered a new class of diagnostic techniques …

Generating multi-GeV electron bunches using single stage laser wakefield acceleration<? format?> in a 3D nonlinear regime

W Lu, M Tzoufras, C Joshi, FS Tsung, WB Mori… - Physical Review Special …, 2007 - APS
The extraordinary ability of space-charge waves in plasmas to accelerate charged particles
at gradients that are orders of magnitude greater than in current accelerators has been well …

Injection and trapping of tunnel-ionized electrons into laser-produced wakes

A Pak, KA Marsh, SF Martins, W Lu, WB Mori, C Joshi - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
A method, which utilizes the large difference in ionization potentials between successive
ionization states of trace atoms, for injecting electrons into a laser-driven wakefield is …

Ultrahigh Brilliance Multi-MeV -Ray Beams from Nonlinear Relativistic Thomson Scattering

G Sarri, DJ Corvan, W Schumaker, JM Cole… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report on the generation of a narrow divergence (θ γ< 2.5 mrad), multi-MeV (E max≈ 18
MeV) and ultrahigh peak brilliance (> 1.8× 10 20 photons s-1 mm-2 mrad-2 0.1% BW) γ-ray …

Few femtosecond, few kiloampere electron bunch produced by a laser–plasma accelerator

O Lundh, J Lim, C Rechatin, L Ammoura, A Ben-Ismaïl… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Particle accelerators driven by the interaction of ultraintense and ultrashort laser pulses with
a plasma can generate accelerating electric fields of several hundred gigavolts per metre …

Generation of neutral and high-density electron–positron pair plasmas in the laboratory

G Sarri, K Poder, JM Cole, W Schumaker… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Electron–positron pair plasmas represent a unique state of matter, whereby there exists an
intrinsic and complete symmetry between negatively charged (matter) and positively …

Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source

S Kneip, C McGuffey, JL Martins, SF Martins, C Bellei… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Each successive generation of X-ray machines has opened up new frontiers in science,
such as the first radiographs and the determination of the structure of DNA. State-of-the-art X …

Gamma-rays from harmonically resonant betatron oscillations in a plasma wake

S Cipiccia, MR Islam, B Ersfeld, RP Shanks, E Brunetti… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
An intense laser pulse in a plasma can accelerate electrons,,, to GeV energies in
centimetres,,. Transverse betatron motion, in the plasma wake results in X-ray photons with …

Self-guided laser wakefield acceleration beyond 1 GeV using ionization-induced injection

CE Clayton, JE Ralph, F Albert, RA Fonseca… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
The concepts of matched-beam, self-guided laser propagation and ionization-induced
injection have been combined to accelerate electrons up to 1.45 GeV energy in a laser …