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Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce electric fields of the order of 100 GV m(−1), more than 1000 times larger than those produced by radio-frequency accelerators. These uniquely strong fields make LPAs a promising path to generate electron beams beyond the TeV, an important goal in high-energy...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9198076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00862-0 |
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author | Oubrerie, Kosta Leblanc, Adrien Kononenko, Olena Lahaye, Ronan Andriyash, Igor A. Gautier, Julien Goddet, Jean-Philippe Martelli, Lorenzo Tafzi, Amar Ta Phuoc, Kim Smartsev, Slava Thaury, Cédric |
author_facet | Oubrerie, Kosta Leblanc, Adrien Kononenko, Olena Lahaye, Ronan Andriyash, Igor A. Gautier, Julien Goddet, Jean-Philippe Martelli, Lorenzo Tafzi, Amar Ta Phuoc, Kim Smartsev, Slava Thaury, Cédric |
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description | Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce electric fields of the order of 100 GV m(−1), more than 1000 times larger than those produced by radio-frequency accelerators. These uniquely strong fields make LPAs a promising path to generate electron beams beyond the TeV, an important goal in high-energy physics. Yet, large electric fields are of little benefit if they are not maintained over a long distance. It is therefore of the utmost importance to guide the ultra-intense laser pulse that drives the accelerator. Reaching very high energies is equally useless if the properties of the electron beam change completely from shot to shot, due to the intrinsic lack of stability of the injection process. State-of-the-art laser-plasma accelerators can already address guiding and control challenges separately by tweaking the plasma structures. However, the production of beams that are simultaneously high quality and high energy has yet to be demonstrated. This paper presents a novel experiment, coupling laser-plasma waveguides and controlled injection techniques, facilitating the reliable and efficient acceleration of high-quality electron beams up to 1.1 GeV, from a 50 TW-class laser. |
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spelling | pubmed-91980762022-06-16 Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide Oubrerie, Kosta Leblanc, Adrien Kononenko, Olena Lahaye, Ronan Andriyash, Igor A. Gautier, Julien Goddet, Jean-Philippe Martelli, Lorenzo Tafzi, Amar Ta Phuoc, Kim Smartsev, Slava Thaury, Cédric Light Sci Appl Article Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce electric fields of the order of 100 GV m(−1), more than 1000 times larger than those produced by radio-frequency accelerators. These uniquely strong fields make LPAs a promising path to generate electron beams beyond the TeV, an important goal in high-energy physics. Yet, large electric fields are of little benefit if they are not maintained over a long distance. It is therefore of the utmost importance to guide the ultra-intense laser pulse that drives the accelerator. Reaching very high energies is equally useless if the properties of the electron beam change completely from shot to shot, due to the intrinsic lack of stability of the injection process. State-of-the-art laser-plasma accelerators can already address guiding and control challenges separately by tweaking the plasma structures. However, the production of beams that are simultaneously high quality and high energy has yet to be demonstrated. This paper presents a novel experiment, coupling laser-plasma waveguides and controlled injection techniques, facilitating the reliable and efficient acceleration of high-quality electron beams up to 1.1 GeV, from a 50 TW-class laser. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9198076/ /pubmed/35701390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00862-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Oubrerie, Kosta Leblanc, Adrien Kononenko, Olena Lahaye, Ronan Andriyash, Igor A. Gautier, Julien Goddet, Jean-Philippe Martelli, Lorenzo Tafzi, Amar Ta Phuoc, Kim Smartsev, Slava Thaury, Cédric Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
title | Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
title_full | Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
title_fullStr | Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
title_full_unstemmed | Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
title_short | Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
title_sort | controlled acceleration of gev electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9198076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00862-0 |
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