An external static magnetic field with its strength B~10T may result in the laser wake wave-breaking upon changing the electron motion in the vicinity of maximal density ramp of a wave period. This, as shown by numerical simulations, can change the resonance character of the electron self-injection in the laser wake-field; a total charge loaded in the acceleration phase of laser pulse wake can be controlled by a proper choice of the magnetic field strength.
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.
Betatron x-ray emission in laser-plasma accelerators is a promising compact source that may be an alternative to conventional x-ray sources, based on large scale machines. In addition to its potential as a source, precise measurements of betatron emission can reveal crucial information about relativistic laser-plasma interaction. We show that the emission length and the position of the x-ray emission can be obtained by placing an aperture mask close to the source, and by measuring the beam profile of the betatron x-ray radiation far from the aperture mask. The position of the x-ray emission gives information on plasma wave breaking and hence on the laser non-linear propagation. Moreover, the measurement of the longitudinal extension helps one to determine whether the acceleration is limited by pump depletion or dephasing effects. In the case of multiple injections, it is used to retrieve unambiguously the position in the plasma of each injection. This technique is also used to study how, in a capillary discharge, the variations of the delay between the discharge and the laser pulse affect the interaction. The study reveals that, for a delay appropriate for laser guiding, the x-ray emission only occurs in the second half of the capillary: no electrons are injected and accelerated in the first half.
Imposing an external magnetic field in short-pulse intense laser-plasma interaction is of broad scientific interest in related plasma research areas. We propose a simple method using a virtual current layer by introducing an extra current density term to simulate the external magnetic field, and demonstrate it with three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. The field distribution and its evolution in sub-picosecond time scale are obtained. The magnetization process takes a much longer time than that of laser-plasma interaction due to plasma diamagnetism arising from collective response. The long-time evolution of magnetic diffusion and diamagnetic current can be predicted based on a simplified analytic model in combination with simulations.
The two-temperature relativistic electron spectrum from a low-density ($3times10^{17}$~cm$^{-3}$) self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator (SM-LWFA) is observed to transition between temperatures of $19pm0.65$ and $46pm2.45$ MeV at an electron energy of about 100 MeV. When the electrons are dispersed orthogonally to the laser polarization, their spectrum above 60 MeV shows a forking structure characteristic of direct laser acceleration (DLA). Both the two-temperature distribution and the forking structure are reproduced in a quasi-3D textsc{Osiris} simulation of the interaction of the 1-ps, moderate-amplitude ($a_{0}=2.7$) laser pulse with the low-density plasma. Particle tracking shows that while the SM-LWFA mechanism dominates below 40 MeV, the highest-energy ($>60$ MeV) electrons gain most of their energy through DLA. By separating the simulated electric fields into modes, the DLA-dominated electrons are shown to lose significant energy to the longitudinal laser field from the tight focusing geometry, resulting in a more accurate measure of net DLA energy gain than previously possible.
The recent experimental data of anomalous magnetic moments strongly indicate the existence of new physics beyond the standard model. An energetic $mu^+$ beam is a potential option to the expected neutrino factories, the future muon colliders and the $mu$SR(the spin rotation, resonance and relaxation) technology. It is proposed a prompt acceleration scheme of the $mu^+$ beam in a donut wakefield driven by a shaped Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser pulse. The forward part of the donut wakefield can accelerate and also focus positive particle beams effectively. The LG laser is shaped by a near-critical-density plasma. The shaped LG laser has the shorter rise time and can enlarge the acceleration field. The acceleration field driven by a shaped LG laser pulse is six times higher than that driven by a normal LG laser pulse. The simulation results show that the $ mu^+$ bunch can be accelerated from $200mathrm{MeV}$ to 2GeV and the transversal size of the $mu^+$ bunch is also focused from initial $omega_0=5mu m$ to $omega=1mu m$ within several picoseconds.
A. Zhidkov
,T. Hosokai
,S. Masuda
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(2012)
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"Electron self-injection for the acceleration in laser-pulse-wakes in the presence of a `strong external magnetic field"
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Alexey Zhidkov
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