LUX - A design study for a linac/laser-based ultrafast X-ray source

Conference · Fri Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:843007

Corlett, J N; Barletta, W A; DeSantis, S; Doolittle, L; Fawley, W M; Heimann, P; Leone, S; Lidia, S; Li, D; Penn, G; Ratti, A; Reinsch, M; Schoenlein, R; Staples, J; Stover, G; Virostek, S; Wan, W; Wells, R; Wilcox, R; Wolski, A ; Wurtele, J; Zholents, A

A warm, relativistic fluid theory of a nonequilibrium, collisionless plasma is developed to analyze nonlinear plasma waves excited by intense drive beams. The maximum amplitude and wavelength are calculated for nonrelativistic plasma temperatures and arbitrary plasma wave phase velocities. The maximum amplitude is shown to increase in the presence of a laser field. These results set a limit to the achievable gradient in plasma-based accelerators.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 843007
• Report Number(s): LBNL-57430; R&D Project: Z3FALS; TRN: US0503775
• Resource Relation: Conference: SPIE Annual Meeting 2004 International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Denver, CO, August 2-6, 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
AMPLITUDES
COLLISIONLESS PLASMA
DESIGN
ELECTRON TEMPERATURE
ION TEMPERATURE
LASERS
PLASMA WAVES
WAVELENGTHS
X-RAY SOURCES
accelerator x-ray ultrafast linac