Studies of charged-particle acceleration processes remain one of the most important areas
of research in laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas. In this paper, we present the …

This book concerns itself with the physics of systems having high-energydensity. By high-
energy-density systems, we refer to those having a pressure above one million …

We demonstrate that a beam of x-ray radiation can be generated by simply focusing a single
high-intensity laser pulse into a gas jet. A millimeter-scale laser-produced plasma creates …

Plasmas excited by laser beams or bunches of relativistic electrons have been used to
produce electric fields of 10–100 GV m− 1. This has opened up the possibility of building …

During the past two decades of research, the ultra-relativistic beam-driven plasma wakefield
accelerator (PWFA) concept has achieved many significant milestones. These include the …

A plasma-wakefield accelerator has accelerated particles by over 2.7 GeV in a 10 cm long
plasma module. A 28.5 GeV electron beam with 1.8× 10 10 electrons is compressed to 20 μ …

The interaction of high-power lasers with matter can generate Terahertz radiations that
efficiently contribute to THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and also would replace X-rays in …

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 …

Plasma wakefields are both excited and probed by propagating an intense 28.5 GeV
positron beam through a 1.4 m long lithium plasma. The main body of the beam loses …

Electron dynamics in plasma-focusing channels has important applications to new plasma
technologies, such as advanced accelerators, 1 novel radiation sources, and new types of …