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Proposed scheme for compact GeV laser plasma accelerator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2006

A.F. LIFSCHITZ ,
J. FAURE ,
Y. GLINEC ,
V. MALKA  and
P. MORA
A.F. LIFSCHITZ
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
J. FAURE
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Y. GLINEC
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
V. MALKA
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
P. MORA
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
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Abstract

The design of a two-stage compact GeV electron accelerator is presented. The accelerator is as follows: (1) an ultra-short electron bunch is produced in a state-of-the-art laser-plasma accelerator (injector stage), (2) it is injected into an accelerating stage consisting of a centimeter length low density plasma interacting with a petawatt laser pulse. The parameters for the injector are taken from recent experimental results showing that high quality, ultra-short, and quasi-monoenergetic electron beams are now being produced in laser-plasma accelerators. Simulations performed with WAKE show that this method can lead to the production of high quality, monoenergetic, and sub-50 fs electron bunches at the GeV energy level.

Keywords

Laser-plasma acceleratorMonoenergetic electron beamParticle beam
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 255 - 259
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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