[HTML][HTML] EuPRAXIA conceptual design report

RW Assmann, MK Weikum, T Akhter, D Alesini… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Diagnostics, control and performance parameters for the BELLA high repetition rate petawatt class laser

K Nakamura, HS Mao, AJ Gonsalves… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A laser system producing controllable and stable pulses with high power and ultrashort
duration at high repetition rate is a key component of a high energy laser-plasma accelerator …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of a high repetition rate capillary discharge waveguide

AJ Gonsalves, F Liu, NA Bobrova, PV Sasorov… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide operating at kHz repetition rates is
presented for parameters relevant to laser plasma acceleration (LPA). The discharge current …

Gas-filled capillary-discharge stabilization for plasma-based accelerators by means of a laser pulse

A Biagioni, MP Anania, S Arjmand… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of compact accelerator machines is leading towards the use of plasma-
based devices that are able to sustain large acceleration gradients up to several tens of GV …

Energy boost in laser wakefield accelerators using sharp density transitions

A Döpp, E Guillaume, C Thaury, A Lifschitz… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The energy gain in laser wakefield accelerators is limited by dephasing between the driving
laser pulse and the highly relativistic electrons in its wake. Since this phase depends on …

[HTML][HTML] Compact Compton γ-ray source from a spatiotemporal-modulated pulse scattering a high-energy electron beam

Q Yu, YJ Gu, Y Zhang, Q Kong, S Kawata - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A novel plasma mirror is proposed for realizing all-optical Compton scattering, and its
performance is compared with that of planar and concave plasma mirrors. Compared to a …

Design study for generating sub-femtosecond to femtosecond electron bunches for advanced accelerator development at SINBAD

J Zhu - 2017 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
The SINBAD (Short INnovative Bunches and Accelerators at DESY) project is a dedicated,
long-term accelerator research and development (R&D) facility currently under construction …

Radial density profile and stability of capillary discharge plasma waveguides of lengths up to 40 cm

M Turner, AJ Gonsalves, SS Bulanov… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We measured the parameter reproducibility and radial electron density profile of capillary
discharge waveguides with diameters of 650%. These variations explain only a small …

Emittance growth due to misalignment in multistage laser-plasma accelerators

M Thévenet, R Lehe, CB Schroeder, C Benedetti… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
Beam degradation is examined in a laser-plasma accelerator stage with a parabolic plasma
channel when the laser pulse and/or the electron beam enters the channel off axis. Betatron …

Free-electron lasers driven by laser plasma accelerators

J Van Tilborg, SK Barber, F Isono… - AIP Conference …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) have the potential to drive compact free-electron lasers
(FELs). Even with LPA energy spreads typically at the percent level, the e-beam brightness …