Laser plasma accelerators

V Malka - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This review article highlights the tremendous evolution of the research on laser plasma
accelerators which has, in record time, led to the production of high quality electron beams …

Energy doubling of 42 GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator

I Blumenfeld, CE Clayton, FJ Decker, MJ Hogan… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The energy frontier of particle physics is several trillion electron volts, but colliders capable
of reaching this regime (such as the Large Hadron Collider and the International Linear …

Electron and positron beam–driven plasma acceleration

MJ Hogan - Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology, 2016 - World Scientific
Particle accelerators are the ultimate microscopes. They produce high energy beams of
particles—or, in some cases, generate X-ray laser pulses—to probe the fundamental …

Simulation of beams or plasmas crossing at relativistic velocity

JL Vay - Physics of Plasmas, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
This paper addresses the numerical issues related to the modeling of beams or plasmas
crossing at relativistic velocity using the particle-in-cell method. Issues related to the use of …

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 …

High efficiency uniform wakefield acceleration of a positron beam using stable asymmetric mode in a hollow channel plasma

S Zhou, J Hua, W An, WB Mori, C Joshi, J Gao, W Lu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Plasma wakefield acceleration in the blowout regime is particularly promising for high-
energy acceleration of electron beams because of its potential to simultaneously provide …

Plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET

MJ Hogan, TO Raubenheimer, A Seryi… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
FACET—Facilities for Accelerator science and Experimental Test beams at SLAC—will
provide high-energy-density electron and positron beams with peak currents of roughly 20 …

Novel methods in the particle-in-cell accelerator code-framework warp

JL Vay, DP Grote, RH Cohen… - Computational Science & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) Code-Framework Warp is being developed by the Heavy
Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory (HIFS-VNL) to guide the development of …

Exploring laser-wakefield-accelerator regimes for near-term lasers using particle-in-cell simulation in Lorentz-boosted frames

SF Martins, RA Fonseca, W Lu, WB Mori, LO Silva - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Plasma-based acceleration offers compact accelerators with potential applications for high-
energy physics and photon sources. The past five years have seen an explosion of …

HiPACE++: A portable, 3D quasi-static particle-in-cell code

S Diederichs, C Benedetti, A Huebl, R Lehe… - Computer Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Modeling plasma accelerators is a computationally challenging task and the quasi-static
particle-in-cell algorithm is a method of choice in a wide range of situations. In this work, we …