The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator

Aniculaesei, Constantin; Ha, Thanh; Yoffe, Samuel; Labun, Lance; Milton, Stephen; McCary, Edward; Spinks, Michael M.; Quevedo, Hernan J.; Labun, Ou Z.; Sain, Ritwik; Hannasch, Andrea; Zgadzaj, Rafal; Pagano, Isabella; Franco-Altamirano, Jose A.; Ringuette, Martin L.; Gaul, Erhart; Luedtke, Scott V.; Tiwari, Ganesh; Ersfeld, Bernhard; Brunetti, Enrico; Ruhl, Hartmut; Ditmire, Todd; Bruce, Sandra; Donovan, Michael E.; Downer, Michael C.; Jaroszynski, Dino A.; Hegelich, Bjorn Manuel

doi:10.1063/5.0161687

Title: The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator

Abstract

An intense laser pulse focused onto a plasma can excite nonlinear plasma waves. Under appropriate conditions, electrons from the background plasma are trapped in the plasma wave and accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities. This scheme is called a laser wakefield accelerator. In this work, we present results from a laser wakefield acceleration experiment using a petawatt-class laser to excite the wakefields as well as nanoparticles to assist the injection of electrons into the accelerating phase of the wakefields. We find that a 10-cm-long, nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield accelerator can generate 340 pC, 10 ± 1.86 GeV electron bunches with a 3.4 GeV rms convolved energy spread and a 0.9 mrad rms divergence. It can also produce bunches with lower energies in the 4–6 GeV range.

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University of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
University of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Tau Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (United States)
Tau Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (United States)
University of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 7, Munich (Germany)

Publication Date:: Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2023

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); European Union’s Horizon 2020

OSTI Identifier:: 2281337

Report Number(s):: BNL-225191-2024-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2468-2047

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; FA9550-17-1-0264; SC0021125; SC0011617; EP/J018171/1; EP/N028694/1; 871124; EP/T022167/1

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Matter and Radiation at Extremes

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2468-2047

Publisher:: China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)/AIP Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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                    Aniculaesei, Constantin, Ha, Thanh, Yoffe, Samuel, Labun, Lance, Milton, Stephen, McCary, Edward, Spinks, Michael M., Quevedo, Hernan J., Labun, Ou Z., Sain, Ritwik, Hannasch, Andrea, Zgadzaj, Rafal, Pagano, Isabella, Franco-Altamirano, Jose A., Ringuette, Martin L., Gaul, Erhart, Luedtke, Scott V., Tiwari, Ganesh, Ersfeld, Bernhard, Brunetti, Enrico, Ruhl, Hartmut, Ditmire, Todd, Bruce, Sandra, Donovan, Michael E., Downer, Michael C., Jaroszynski, Dino A., and Hegelich, Bjorn Manuel. The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator.  United States: N. p., 2023. 
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                    Aniculaesei, Constantin, Ha, Thanh, Yoffe, Samuel, Labun, Lance, Milton, Stephen, McCary, Edward, Spinks, Michael M., Quevedo, Hernan J., Labun, Ou Z., Sain, Ritwik, Hannasch, Andrea, Zgadzaj, Rafal, Pagano, Isabella, Franco-Altamirano, Jose A., Ringuette, Martin L., Gaul, Erhart, Luedtke, Scott V., Tiwari, Ganesh, Ersfeld, Bernhard, Brunetti, Enrico, Ruhl, Hartmut, Ditmire, Todd, Bruce, Sandra, Donovan, Michael E., Downer, Michael C., Jaroszynski, Dino A., & Hegelich, Bjorn Manuel. The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161687

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                    Aniculaesei, Constantin, Ha, Thanh, Yoffe, Samuel, Labun, Lance, Milton, Stephen, McCary, Edward, Spinks, Michael M., Quevedo, Hernan J., Labun, Ou Z., Sain, Ritwik, Hannasch, Andrea, Zgadzaj, Rafal, Pagano, Isabella, Franco-Altamirano, Jose A., Ringuette, Martin L., Gaul, Erhart, Luedtke, Scott V., Tiwari, Ganesh, Ersfeld, Bernhard, Brunetti, Enrico, Ruhl, Hartmut, Ditmire, Todd, Bruce, Sandra, Donovan, Michael E., Downer, Michael C., Jaroszynski, Dino A., and Hegelich, Bjorn Manuel. Wed .  
"The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161687.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2281337.

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  title        = {The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator},

  author       = {Aniculaesei, Constantin and Ha, Thanh and Yoffe, Samuel and Labun, Lance and Milton, Stephen and McCary, Edward and Spinks, Michael M. and Quevedo, Hernan J. and Labun, Ou Z. and Sain, Ritwik and Hannasch, Andrea and Zgadzaj, Rafal and Pagano, Isabella and Franco-Altamirano, Jose A. and Ringuette, Martin L. and Gaul, Erhart and Luedtke, Scott V. and Tiwari, Ganesh and Ersfeld, Bernhard and Brunetti, Enrico and Ruhl, Hartmut and Ditmire, Todd and Bruce, Sandra and Donovan, Michael E. and Downer, Michael C. and Jaroszynski, Dino A. and Hegelich, Bjorn Manuel},

  abstractNote = {An intense laser pulse focused onto a plasma can excite nonlinear plasma waves. Under appropriate conditions, electrons from the background plasma are trapped in the plasma wave and accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities. This scheme is called a laser wakefield accelerator. In this work, we present results from a laser wakefield acceleration experiment using a petawatt-class laser to excite the wakefields as well as nanoparticles to assist the injection of electrons into the accelerating phase of the wakefields. We find that a 10-cm-long, nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield accelerator can generate 340 pC, 10 ± 1.86 GeV electron bunches with a 3.4 GeV rms convolved energy spread and a 0.9 mrad rms divergence. It can also produce bunches with lower energies in the 4–6 GeV range.},

  doi          = {10.1063/5.0161687},

  journal      = {Matter and Radiation at Extremes},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 9,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2023},

  month        = {Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2023}

}

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