On the properties of synchrotron-like X-ray emission from laser wakefield accelerated electron beams

McGuffey, C.; Schumaker, W.; Matsuoka, T.; Chvykov, V.; Dollar, F.; Kalintchenko, G.; Kneip, S.; Najmudin, Z.; Mangles, S. P.  D.; Vargas, M.; Yanovsky, V.; Maksimchuk, A.; Thomas, A. G.  R.; Krushelnick, K.

doi:10.1063/1.5024547

Title: On the properties of synchrotron-like X-ray emission from laser wakefield accelerated electron beams

Journal Article · Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024547· OSTI ID:1540178

McGuffey, C. ^[1]; Schumaker, W. ^[2]; Matsuoka, T. ^[3]; Chvykov, V. ^[2];

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Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Osaka Univ. (Japan)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)

The electric and magnetic fields responsible for electron acceleration in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) also cause electrons to radiate x-ray photons. Such x-ray pulses have several desirable properties including short duration and being well collimated with tunable high energy. We measure the scaling of this x-ray source experimentally up to laser powers greater than 100 TW. An increase in laser power allows electron trapping at a lower density as well as with an increased trapped charge. These effects ended in an x-ray fluence that was measured to increase non-linearly with laser power. The fluence of x-rays was also compared with that produced from K-α emission resulting from a solid target interaction for the same energy laser pulse. The flux was demonstrated to be comparable, but the LWFA x-rays had a significantly smaller source size. This indicates that such a source may be useful as a backlighter for probing high energy density plasmas with ultrafast temporal resolution.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0002372

OSTI ID:: 1540178

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1431156

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 4; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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