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Since it is possible to form laser pulses with a frequency much larger than the frequency of visible light, Prof. T.Tajima proposed using such pulse to accelerate the particles at its injection into the crystal. Here, the wakefield excitation in the metallic-density plasma and the electron acceleration by laser pulse are simulated. The accelerating gradient has been ob-tained approximately 3TV/m. It is shown that, as in ordinary plasma, with time beam-plasma wakefield acceleration is added to laser wakefield acceleration.
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In a laser plasma accelerator (LPA), a short and intense laser pulse propagating in a plasma drives a wakefield (a plasma wave with a relativistic phase velocity) that can sustain extremely large electric fields, enabling compact accelerating structures. Potential LPA applications include compact radiation sources and high energy linear colliders. We propose and study plasma wave excitation by an incoherent combination of a large number of low energy laser pulses (i.e., without constraining the pulse phases). We show that, in spite of the incoherent nature of electromagnetic fields within the volume occupied by the pulses, the excited wakefield is regular and its amplitude is comparable or equal to that obtained using a single, coherent pulse with the same energy. These results provide a path to the next generation of LPA-based applications, where incoherently combined multiple pulses may enable high repetition rate, high average power LPAs.
The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration, known as radiation reaction. When interacting with a high-energy electron beam, todays lasers are sufficiently intense to explore the transition between the classical and quantum radiation reaction regimes. We report on the observation of radiation reaction in the collision of an ultra-relativistic electron beam generated by laser wakefield acceleration ($varepsilon > 500$ MeV) with an intense laser pulse ($a_0 > 10$). We measure an energy loss in the post-collision electron spectrum that is correlated with the detected signal of hard photons ($gamma$-rays), consistent with a quantum (stochastic) description of radiation reaction. The generated $gamma$-rays have the highest energies yet reported from an all-optical inverse Compton scattering scheme, with critical energy $varepsilon_{rm crit} > $ 30 MeV.
We present a novel electron injection scheme for plasma wakefield acceleration. The method is based on recently proposed technique of fast electron generation via laser-solid interaction: a femtosecond laser pulse with the energy of tens of mJ hitting a dense plasma target at $45^o$ angle expels a well collimated bunch of electrons and accelerates these close to the specular direction up to several MeVs. We study trapping of these fast electrons by a quasi-linear wakefield excited by an external beam driver in a surrounding low density plasma. This configuration can be relevant to the AWAKE experiment at CERN. We vary different injection parameters: the phase and angle of injection, the laser pulse energy. An approximate trapping condition is derived for a linear axisymmetric wake. It is used to optimise the trapped charge and is verified by three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that a quasi-linear plasma wave with the accelerating field $sim$ 2.5 GV/m can trap electron bunches with $sim$ 100 pC charge, $sim$ 60 $mu$m transverse normalized emittance and accelerate them to energies of several GeV with the spread $lesssim$ 1 % after 10 m.
Dynamics of self-injected electron bunches has been numerically simulated in blowout regime at self-consistent change of electron bunch acceleration by plasma wakefield, excited by a laser pulse, to additional their acceleration by wakefield, excited by self-injected bunch. Advantages of acceleration by pulse train and bunch self-cleaning have been considered.
We propose a new method for self-injection of high-quality electron bunches in the plasma wakefield structure in the blowout regime utilizing a flying focus produced by a drive-beam with an energy-chirp. In a flying focus the speed of the density centroid of the drive bunch can be superluminal or subluminal by utilizing the chromatic dependence of the focusing optics. We first derive the focal velocity and the characteristic length of the focal spot in terms of the focal length and an energy chirp. We then demonstrate using multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that a wake driven by a superluminally propagating flying focus of an electron beam can generate GeV-level electron bunches with ultra-low normalized slice emittance ($sim$30 nm rad), high current ($sim$ 17 kA), low slice energy-spread ($sim$0.1%) and therefore high normalized brightness ($>10^{19}$ A/rad$^2$/m$^2$) in a plasma of density $sim10^{19}$ cm$^{-3}$. The injection process is highly controllable and tunable by changing the focal velocity and shaping the drive beam current. Near-term experiments using the new FACET II beam could potentially produce beams with brightness exceeding $10^{20}$ A/rad$^2$/m$^2$.
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