Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes
Abstract
Though wakefield acceleration in crystal channels has been previously proposed, x-ray wakefield acceleration has only recently become a realistic possibility since the invention of the single-cycled optical laser compression technique. We investigate the acceleration due to a wakefield induced by a coherent, ultrashort x-ray pulse guided by a nanoscale channel inside a solid material. By two-dimensional particle-in-cell computer simulations, we show that an acceleration gradient of TeV/cm is attainable. This is about 3 orders of magnitude stronger than that of the conventional plasma-based wakefield accelerations, which implies the possibility of an extremely compact scheme to attain ultrahigh energies. In addition to particle acceleration, this scheme can also induce the emission of high energy photons at ~O(10–100) MeV. Here, our simulations confirm such high energy photon emissions, which is in contrast with that induced by the optical laser driven wakefield scheme. In addition to this, the significantly improved emittance of the energetic electrons has been discussed.
- Authors:
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China); Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Northern Illinois Univ. and Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Dekalb, IL (United States)
- Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)
- National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1334267
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-16-571-APC
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888; PRABFM; 1494351
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 19; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Citation Formats
Zhang, Xiaomei, Tajima, Toshiki, Farinella, Deano, Shin, Youngmin, Mourou, Gerard, Wheeler, Jonathan, Taborek, Peter, Chen, Pisin, Dollar, Franklin, and Shen, Baifei. Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.101004.
Zhang, Xiaomei, Tajima, Toshiki, Farinella, Deano, Shin, Youngmin, Mourou, Gerard, Wheeler, Jonathan, Taborek, Peter, Chen, Pisin, Dollar, Franklin, & Shen, Baifei. Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.101004
Zhang, Xiaomei, Tajima, Toshiki, Farinella, Deano, Shin, Youngmin, Mourou, Gerard, Wheeler, Jonathan, Taborek, Peter, Chen, Pisin, Dollar, Franklin, and Shen, Baifei. Tue .
"Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.101004. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1334267.
@article{osti_1334267,
title = {Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes},
author = {Zhang, Xiaomei and Tajima, Toshiki and Farinella, Deano and Shin, Youngmin and Mourou, Gerard and Wheeler, Jonathan and Taborek, Peter and Chen, Pisin and Dollar, Franklin and Shen, Baifei},
abstractNote = {Though wakefield acceleration in crystal channels has been previously proposed, x-ray wakefield acceleration has only recently become a realistic possibility since the invention of the single-cycled optical laser compression technique. We investigate the acceleration due to a wakefield induced by a coherent, ultrashort x-ray pulse guided by a nanoscale channel inside a solid material. By two-dimensional particle-in-cell computer simulations, we show that an acceleration gradient of TeV/cm is attainable. This is about 3 orders of magnitude stronger than that of the conventional plasma-based wakefield accelerations, which implies the possibility of an extremely compact scheme to attain ultrahigh energies. In addition to particle acceleration, this scheme can also induce the emission of high energy photons at ~O(10–100) MeV. Here, our simulations confirm such high energy photon emissions, which is in contrast with that induced by the optical laser driven wakefield scheme. In addition to this, the significantly improved emittance of the energetic electrons has been discussed.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.101004},
journal = {Physical Review Accelerators and Beams},
number = 10,
volume = 19,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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