The development of laser- and beam-driven plasma accelerators as an experimental field

Journal Article · Tue May 15 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2721965· OSTI ID:20975023

Joshi, C ^[1]

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1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)

Since its inception in the early 1980s, the field of plasma-based particle accelerators has made remarkable advances. Robust plasma accelerating structures can now be excited over centimeter scales using short laser pulses and over meter scales using ultrarelativistic particle beams. Accelerating fields in excess of tens of GV/m can be sustained over these lengths. Laser-driven plasma accelerators now routinely produce monoenergetic, low divergence electron beams in the 100 MeV-1 GeV range, whereas electron-beam driven plasma accelerators have demonstrated the ability to double the energy of 42 GeV electrons using a high-energy collider beam in less than one meter. The development of this field is traced through a series of path breaking experiments.

• OSTI ID: 20975023
• Journal Information: Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 14; ISSN PHPAEN; ISSN 1070-664X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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