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Electron Acceleration by a Wake Field Forced by an Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulse
Victor Malka
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S. Fritzler
1
E. Lefebvre
2
M.-M. Aleonard
3
F. Burgy
1
Jean-Paul Chambaret
1
J.-F. Chemin
3
K. Krushelnick
4
G. Malka
3
S.P.D Mangles
4
Z. Najmudin
4
M. Pittman
1
Jean-Philippe Rousseau
1
J.-N. Scheurer
3
B. Walton
4
A.E. Dangor
4
Victor Malka 1
Author IdHAL : victor-malka
S. Fritzler 1
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E. Lefebvre 2
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M.-M. Aleonard 3
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Jean-Philippe Rousseau 1
Author IdHAL : jean-philippe-rousseau
J.-N. Scheurer 3
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B. Walton 4
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A.E. Dangor 4
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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)
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DPTA - Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée (CEA Bruyères le Châtel DAM/DIF/DPTA 91297 Arpajon - France)
- DAM/DIF - DAM Île-de-France : DAM/DIF (CEA Bruyères-le-Châtel 91297 Arpajon cedex - France)
- DAM - Direction des Applications Militaires : DAM/DIF (France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DAM (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- DAM - Direction des Applications Militaires : DAM/DIF (France)
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CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (Chemin du Solarium - BP 120 - 33175 Gradignan Cedex - France)
- Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (351 cours de la Libération - 33405 Talence cedex - France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5797 (France)
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Blackett Laboratory (Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
- Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
Abstract : Plasmas are an attractive medium for the next generation of particle accelerators because they can support electric fields greater than several hundred gigavolts per meter. These accelerating fields are generated by relativistic plasma waves--space-charge oscillations--that can be excited when a high-intensity laser propagates through a plasma. Large currents of background electrons can then be trapped and subsequently accelerated by these relativistic waves. In the forced laser wake field regime, where the laser pulse length is of the order of the plasma wavelength, we show that a gain in maximum electron energy of up to 200 megaelectronvolts can be achieved, along with an improvement in the quality of the ultrashort electron beam.
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- HAL Id : hal-00519003, version 1
- DOI : 10.1126/science.1076782
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Victor Malka, S. Fritzler, E. Lefebvre, M.-M. Aleonard, F. Burgy, et al.. Electron Acceleration by a Wake Field Forced by an Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulse. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002, 298 (5598), pp.1596 - 1600. ⟨10.1126/science.1076782⟩. ⟨hal-00519003⟩
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