The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator

Aniculaesei, Constantin; Ha, Thanh; Yoffe, Samuel; Labun, Lance; Milton, Stephen; McCary, Edward; Spinks, Michael M.; Quevedo, Hernan J.; Labun, Ou Z.; Sain, Ritwik; Hannasch, Andrea; Zgadzaj, Rafal; Pagano, Isabella; Franco-Altamirano, Jose A.; Ringuette, Martin L.; Gaul, Erhart; Luedtke, Scott V.; Tiwari, Ganesh; Ersfeld, Bernhard; Brunetti, Enrico; Ruhl, Hartmut; Ditmire, Todd; Bruce, Sandra; Donovan, Michael E.; Downer, Michael C.; Jaroszynski, Dino A.; Hegelich, Bjorn Manuel

doi:10.1063/5.0161687

Title: The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator

Journal Article · Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Matter and Radiation at Extremes

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161687· OSTI ID:2281337

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University of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
University of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Tau Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (United States)
Tau Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (United States)
University of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 7, Munich (Germany)

An intense laser pulse focused onto a plasma can excite nonlinear plasma waves. Under appropriate conditions, electrons from the background plasma are trapped in the plasma wave and accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities. This scheme is called a laser wakefield accelerator. In this work, we present results from a laser wakefield acceleration experiment using a petawatt-class laser to excite the wakefields as well as nanoparticles to assist the injection of electrons into the accelerating phase of the wakefields. We find that a 10-cm-long, nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield accelerator can generate 340 pC, 10 ± 1.86 GeV electron bunches with a 3.4 GeV rms convolved energy spread and a 0.9 mrad rms divergence. It can also produce bunches with lower energies in the 4–6 GeV range.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); European Union’s Horizon 2020

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; FA9550-17-1-0264; SC0021125; SC0011617; EP/J018171/1; EP/N028694/1; 871124; EP/T022167/1

OSTI ID:: 2281337

Report Number(s):: BNL-225191-2024-JAAM

Journal Information:: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2468-2047

Publisher:: China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)/AIP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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