Matched guiding and controlled injection in dark-current-free, 10-GeV-class, channel-guided laser-plasma accelerators

A Picksley, J Stackhouse, C Benedetti, K Nakamura… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We measure the high-intensity laser propagation throughout meter-scale, channel-guided
laser-plasma accelerators by adjusting the length of the plasma channel on a shot-by-shot …

[HTML][HTML] Lattice Boltzmann method for warm fluid simulations of plasma wakefield acceleration

D Simeoni, G Parise, F Guglietta, AR Rossi… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A comprehensive characterization of lattice Boltzmann (LB) schemes to perform warm fluid
numerical simulations of particle wakefield acceleration (PWFA) processes is discussed in …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a nonlinear plasma lens for achromatic beam transport

P Drobniak, E Adli, HB Anderson, A Dyson… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2025 - Elsevier
We introduce the new idea of a nonlinear active plasma lens, as part of a larger transport
lattice for achromatic electron beam transport. The proposed implementation uses an …

Benchmarking of hydrodynamic plasma waveguides for multi-GeV laser-driven electron acceleration

B Miao, E Rockafellow, JE Shrock, SW Hancock… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Hydrodynamic plasma waveguides initiated by optical field ionization (OFI) have recently
become a key component of multi-GeV laser wakefield accelerators. Here, we present the …

Controlled Injection in a Laser Plasma Accelerator via an Optically Generated Waveguide Constriction

RJ Shalloo, AF Pousa, M Mewes, S Jalas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a novel scheme for controlling the injection of a high-quality electron bunch into
a channel-guided laser plasma accelerator. This all-optical technique, constricted …

Single-mode laser guiding in non-parabolic plasma channels for high-energy electron acceleration

Z Lécz, S Majorosi, NAM Hafz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14785, 2024 - arxiv.org
The discovery of laser wakefield acceleration in gaseous plasma was a major milestone that
could lead to a significant reduction of size and cost of large electron accelerators. For …

Theory and simulation of multi-GeV laser wakefield acceleration at kHz repetition rates

JJ van de Wetering - 2024 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Deploying both analytic methods and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, we investigate the
operating regime and performance of the Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator (P …

[PDF][PDF] Design and modeling of HOFI plasma channels for laser plasma accelerators

N Cook, S Coleman, C Hall, K Wolfinger, C Benedetti… - Proc. IPAC'24 - jacow.org
Structured plasma channels are an essential technology for driving high-gradient, plasma-
based acceleration and control of electron and positron beams for advanced concepts …

[PDF][PDF] STATUS OF HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF A TAPERED PLASMA LENS FOR OPTICAL MATCHING AT THE ILC e+ SOURCE

G Boyle - epaper.kek.jp
Abstract The International Linear Collider is a proposed electronpositron linear collider,
where the positron beam is generated by undulator radiation hitting a target. The resulting …