Hybrid Laser-Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Journal Article · Thu Nov 04 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3520370· OSTI ID:21428819

Hidding, B ^[1]; Koenigstein, T; Willi, O; Pretzler, G ^[1]; Karsch, S ^[2]; Rosenzweig, J B ^[3]

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1. Institut fuer Laser- und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, 40225 Duesseldorf (Germany)
2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching (Germany)
3. Particle Beam Physics Laboratory, Department for Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, CA 90095 (United States)

The concept of driving a driver/witness-type plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) with quasimonoenergetic double electron bunches from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) is studied. In the quasimonoenergetic LWFA/SMLWFA (self-modulated LWFA) regime, it is possible to generate multiple quasimonoenergetic electron bunches with durations of only a few fs and distances of only a few tens of fs with a comparably simple experimental setup. In a subsequent high-density plasma afterburner stage the witness bunch energy can be boosted in the plasma wakefield generated by the driver. Such a hybrid system can increase the maximum energy output of a laser wakefield accelerator and is well suited to study driver/witness plasma accelerator phenomena and can be used as a cost-effective test-bed for future high-energy plasma-based accelerators.

• OSTI ID: 21428819
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1299, Issue 1; Conference: 14. advanced accelerator concepts workshop, Annapolis, MD (United States), 13-19 Jun 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3520370; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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