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 …

Multi-GeV wakefield acceleration in a plasma-modulated plasma accelerator

JJ van de Wetering, SM Hooker, R Walczak - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We investigate the accelerator stage of a plasma-modulated plasma accelerator (P-
MoPA)[Jakobsson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 184801 (2021) 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett …

Stability of the modulator in a plasma-modulated plasma accelerator

JJ van de Wetering, SM Hooker, R Walczak - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We explore the regime of operation of the modulator stage of a recently proposed laser-
plasma accelerator scheme [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 184801 (2021) 0031-9007 …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation observation of high effectiveness laser plasma wakefield accelerator using plasma telescope configuration

M Zeng - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the laser wakefield accelerators, the energy transfer efficiency from the laser to the
electron beam and the energy spread of the electron beam are parameters of contradiction …

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 …

INF&RNO modeling of 10 GeV-class electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator driven by the BELLA laser

C Benedetti, C Schroeder, T Mehrling… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Particle-in-cell modeling of 10 GeV-Class laser-plasma accelerators, where a short and
intense laser pulse with an energy of tens of Joules propagates in a plasma with a length of …

[HTML][HTML] Control of transverse wakefields via phase-matched laser modes in parabolic plasma channels

BZ Djordjević, C Benedetti, CB Schroeder… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The use of higher-order modes is proposed to control the transverse wakefield structure
generated by a laser pulse propagating through a plasma channel. This can be done in the …

Multi-GeV Laser Wakefield Acceleration in Optically Generated Plasma Waveguides

JE Shrock - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Plasma based electron accelerators offer a promising path to overcoming the significant
technological and economic challenges facing the evolution to higher energies by …