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Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse
S. Kneip
1
S. R. Nagel
1
S. F. Martins
2
S.P.D Mangles
1
C. Bellei
1
O. Chekhlov
3
R. J. Clarke
3
N. Delerue
4
E. J. Divall
3
G. Doucas
4
K. Ertel
3
F. Fiuza
2
R. Fonseca
2
P. Foster
3
S. J. Hawkes
3
C. J. Hooker
3
K. Krushelnick
1, 5
W. B. Mori
6
C. A. J. Palmer
1
Kim Ta Phuoc
7
P.P. Rajeev
3
J. Schreiber
1
M. J.V. Streeter
3
D. Urner
4
J. Vieira
2
L. O. Silva
2
Z. Najmudin
1
C. Bellei 1
Author
O. Chekhlov 3
Author
R. J. Clarke 3
Author
N. Delerue 4
Author IdHAL : nicolas-delerue ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1367-9900
K. Krushelnick 1, 5
Author
W. B. Mori 6
Author
C. A. J. Palmer 1
Author
Kim Ta Phuoc 7
Author IdHAL : kim-ta-phuoc
1
Blackett Laboratory (Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
- Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
2
GoLP/Instituto Plasmas e Fusa˜o Nuclear (Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa - Portugal)
- IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 Lisboa - Portugal)
3
CLF - Central Laser Facility (Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX - United Kingdom)
- RAL - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0FA - United Kingdom)
- STFC - Science and Technology Facilities Council (Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1SZ - United Kingdom)
4
Department of Physics-John Adams Institute (Oxford, OX1 3RH - United Kingdom)
- University of Oxford [Oxford] (Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD - United Kingdom)
5
Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (1006 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Michigan - United States)
- University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] (500 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1090 - United States)
- University of Michigan System (Michigan - United States)
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Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA, Los Angeles] (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 - United States)
- UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles] ( Los Angeles, Californie 90095 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
7
LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- ENSTA Paris - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7639 (France)
Abstract : The acceleration of electrons to ≃0.8 GeV has been observed in a self-injecting laser wakefield accelerator driven at a plasma density of 5.5×10^18 cm^-3 by a 10 J, 55 fs, 800 nm laser pulse in the blowout regime. The laser pulse is found to be self-guided for 1 cm (>10zR), by measurement of a single filament containing >30% of the initial laser energy at this distance. Three-dimensional particle in cell simulations show that the intensity within the guided filament is amplified beyond its initial focused value to a normalized vector potential of a0>6, thus driving a highly nonlinear plasma wave.
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- HAL Id : hal-00508862, version 1
- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.035002
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S. Kneip, S. R. Nagel, S. F. Martins, S.P.D Mangles, C. Bellei, et al.. Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2009, 103 (3), pp.035002. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.035002⟩. ⟨hal-00508862⟩
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