Petawatt Laser Guiding and Electron Beam Acceleration to 8 GeV in a Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguide.

Gonsalves, AJ; Nakamura, K; Daniels, J; Benedetti, C; Pieronek, C; de Raadt, TCH; Steinke, S; Bin, JH; Bulanov, SS; van Tilborg, J; Geddes, CGR; Schroeder, CB; Tóth, Cs; Esarey, E; Swanson, K; Fan-Chiang, L; Bagdasarov, G; Bobrova, N; Gasilov, V; Korn, G; Sasorov, P; Leemans, WP

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.084801

Title: Petawatt Laser Guiding and Electron Beam Acceleration to 8 GeV in a Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguide.

Journal Article · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.084801· OSTI ID:1526582

Gonsalves, AJ; Nakamura, K; Daniels, J; Benedetti, C; Pieronek, C; de Raadt, TCH; Steinke, S; Bin, JH; Bulanov, SS; van Tilborg, J; Geddes, CGR; Schroeder, CB; Tóth, Cs; Esarey, E; Swanson, K; Fan-Chiang, L; Bagdasarov, G; Bobrova, N; Gasilov, V; Korn, G more »

Guiding of relativistically intense laser pulses with peak power of 0.85 PW over 15 diffraction lengths was demonstrated by increasing the focusing strength of a capillary discharge waveguide using laser inverse bremsstrahlung heating. This allowed for the production of electron beams with quasimonoenergetic peaks up to 7.8 GeV, double the energy that was previously demonstrated. Charge was 5 pC at 7.8 GeV and up to 62 pC in 6 GeV peaks, and typical beam divergence was 0.2 mrad.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1526582

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 122, Issue 8; ISSN 0031-9007

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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