Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV
Abstract
Laser-plasma accelerators of only a centimetre’s length have produced nearly monoenergetic electron bunches with energy as high as 1 GeV. Scaling these compact accelerators to multi-gigaelectronvolt energy would open the prospect of building X-ray free-electron lasers and linear colliders hundreds of times smaller than conventional facilities, but the 1 GeV barrier has so far proven insurmountable. Here, by applying new petawatt laser technology, we produce electron bunches with a spectrum prominently peaked at 2 GeV with only a few per cent energy spread and unprecedented sub-milliradian divergence. Petawatt pulses inject ambient plasma electrons into the laser-driven accelerator at much lower density than was previously possible, thereby overcoming the principal physical barriers to multi-gigaelectronvolt acceleration: dephasing between laser-driven wake and accelerating electrons and laser pulse erosion. Simulations indicate that with improvements in the laser-pulse focus quality, acceleration to nearly 10 GeV should be possible with the available pulse energy.
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1623914
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC52-08NA28512; FG02-07ER54945; FG03-96ER40954
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United States
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- English
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- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Science & Technology - Other Topics
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Wang, Xiaoming, Zgadzaj, Rafal, Fazel, Neil, Li, Zhengyan, Yi, S. A., Zhang, Xi, Henderson, Watson, Chang, Y. -Y., Korzekwa, R., Tsai, H. -E., Pai, C. -H., Quevedo, H., Dyer, G., Gaul, E., Martinez, M., Bernstein, A. C., Borger, T., Spinks, M., Donovan, M., Khudik, V., Shvets, G., Ditmire, T., and Downer, M. C. Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms2988.
Wang, Xiaoming, Zgadzaj, Rafal, Fazel, Neil, Li, Zhengyan, Yi, S. A., Zhang, Xi, Henderson, Watson, Chang, Y. -Y., Korzekwa, R., Tsai, H. -E., Pai, C. -H., Quevedo, H., Dyer, G., Gaul, E., Martinez, M., Bernstein, A. C., Borger, T., Spinks, M., Donovan, M., Khudik, V., Shvets, G., Ditmire, T., & Downer, M. C. Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2988
Wang, Xiaoming, Zgadzaj, Rafal, Fazel, Neil, Li, Zhengyan, Yi, S. A., Zhang, Xi, Henderson, Watson, Chang, Y. -Y., Korzekwa, R., Tsai, H. -E., Pai, C. -H., Quevedo, H., Dyer, G., Gaul, E., Martinez, M., Bernstein, A. C., Borger, T., Spinks, M., Donovan, M., Khudik, V., Shvets, G., Ditmire, T., and Downer, M. C. Tue .
"Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2988. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1623914.
@article{osti_1623914,
title = {Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV},
author = {Wang, Xiaoming and Zgadzaj, Rafal and Fazel, Neil and Li, Zhengyan and Yi, S. A. and Zhang, Xi and Henderson, Watson and Chang, Y. -Y. and Korzekwa, R. and Tsai, H. -E. and Pai, C. -H. and Quevedo, H. and Dyer, G. and Gaul, E. and Martinez, M. and Bernstein, A. C. and Borger, T. and Spinks, M. and Donovan, M. and Khudik, V. and Shvets, G. and Ditmire, T. and Downer, M. C.},
abstractNote = {Laser-plasma accelerators of only a centimetre’s length have produced nearly monoenergetic electron bunches with energy as high as 1 GeV. Scaling these compact accelerators to multi-gigaelectronvolt energy would open the prospect of building X-ray free-electron lasers and linear colliders hundreds of times smaller than conventional facilities, but the 1 GeV barrier has so far proven insurmountable. Here, by applying new petawatt laser technology, we produce electron bunches with a spectrum prominently peaked at 2 GeV with only a few per cent energy spread and unprecedented sub-milliradian divergence. Petawatt pulses inject ambient plasma electrons into the laser-driven accelerator at much lower density than was previously possible, thereby overcoming the principal physical barriers to multi-gigaelectronvolt acceleration: dephasing between laser-driven wake and accelerating electrons and laser pulse erosion. Simulations indicate that with improvements in the laser-pulse focus quality, acceleration to nearly 10 GeV should be possible with the available pulse energy.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms2988},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
}
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