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Title: Betatron x-ray radiation from laser-plasma accelerators driven by femtosecond and picosecond laser systems

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [9];  [6]; ORCiD logo [5];  [1];  [7]
  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  5. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Stanford, CA (United States)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  7. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  8. Univ. de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal); Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Goteborg (Sweden)
  9. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Univ. de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal); Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1458731
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1439758; OSTI ID: 1844072
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-820666
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X; TRN: US1901516
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; NA0002950; SCW1575-1; 13-LW-076; 16-ERD-024
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Albert, F., Lemos, N., Shaw, J. L., King, P. M., Pollock, B. B., Goyon, C., Schumaker, W., Saunders, A. M., Marsh, K. A., Pak, A., Ralph, J. E., Martins, J. L., Amorim, L. D., Falcone, R. W., Glenzer, S. H., Moody, J. D., and Joshi, C. Betatron x-ray radiation from laser-plasma accelerators driven by femtosecond and picosecond laser systems. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5020997.
Albert, F., Lemos, N., Shaw, J. L., King, P. M., Pollock, B. B., Goyon, C., Schumaker, W., Saunders, A. M., Marsh, K. A., Pak, A., Ralph, J. E., Martins, J. L., Amorim, L. D., Falcone, R. W., Glenzer, S. H., Moody, J. D., & Joshi, C. Betatron x-ray radiation from laser-plasma accelerators driven by femtosecond and picosecond laser systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5020997
Albert, F., Lemos, N., Shaw, J. L., King, P. M., Pollock, B. B., Goyon, C., Schumaker, W., Saunders, A. M., Marsh, K. A., Pak, A., Ralph, J. E., Martins, J. L., Amorim, L. D., Falcone, R. W., Glenzer, S. H., Moody, J. D., and Joshi, C. Thu . "Betatron x-ray radiation from laser-plasma accelerators driven by femtosecond and picosecond laser systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5020997. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1458731.
@article{osti_1458731,
title = {Betatron x-ray radiation from laser-plasma accelerators driven by femtosecond and picosecond laser systems},
author = {Albert, F. and Lemos, N. and Shaw, J. L. and King, P. M. and Pollock, B. B. and Goyon, C. and Schumaker, W. and Saunders, A. M. and Marsh, K. A. and Pak, A. and Ralph, J. E. and Martins, J. L. and Amorim, L. D. and Falcone, R. W. and Glenzer, S. H. and Moody, J. D. and Joshi, C.},
abstractNote = {},
doi = {10.1063/1.5020997},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 5,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (a) Blowout regime of LFWA, where the laser pulse length is ~half a plasma period; (b) self-modulated regime of LWFA, where the laser pulse length overlaps several plasma periods; (c)–(e) evolution of the laser pulse envelope (red) and the plasma wave amplitude (blue) in the self-modulated regime.

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