V. I. Maslov, E. O. Bilokon, V. O. Bilokon, I. P. Levchuk, I. N. Onishchenko
Resonant asymptotics of wakefield excitation in plasma by non-resonant sequence of relativistic electron bunches has been numerically simulated. It has been shown that in resonant asymptotics at optimal parameters the wakefield is excited with the maximum growth rate and the amplitude of the excited wakefield is the largest.
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In this work, we will show through three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that direct laser acceleration in laser a wakefield accelerator can generate sub-femtosecond electron bunches. Two simulations were done with two laser pulse durations, such that the shortest laser pulse occupies only a fraction of the first bubble, whereas the longer pulse fills the entire first bubble. In the latter case, as the trapped electrons moved forward and interacted with the high intensity region of the laser pulse, micro-bunching occurred naturally, producing 0.5 fs electron bunches. This is not obser…
A method based on laser wakefield acceleration with controlled ionization injection triggered by another frequency-tripled laser is proposed, which can produce electron bunches with low energy spread. As two color pulses co-propagate in the background plasma, the peak amplitude of the combined laser field is modulated in time and space during the laser propagation due to the plasma dispersion. Ionization injection occurs when the peak amplitude exceeds certain threshold. The threshold is exceeded for limited duration periodically at different propagation distances, leading to multiple ionizati…
We propose a new method for analytical self-consistent description of the excitation of a strongly nonlinear wakefield (a bubble) excited by an electron bunch. This method makes it possible to calculate the shape of the bubble and the distribution of the electric field in it based only on the properties of the driver, without relying on any additional parameters. The analytical results are verified by particle-in-cell simulations and show good correspondence. A complete analytical solution for cylindrical drivers and scaling laws for the properties of the bubble and other plasma accelerator pa…
Nonlinear effects responsible for elongation of the plasma wave period are numerically studied with the emphasis on two-dimensionality of the wave. The limitation on the wakefield amplitude imposed by detuning of the wave and the driver is found.
Effects of plasma inhomogeneity on self-modulating proton bunches and accelerated electrons were studied numerically. The main effect is the change of the wakefield wavelength which results in phase shifts and loss of accelerated particles. This effect imposes severe constraints on density uniformity in plasma wakefield accelerators driven by long particle bunches. The transverse two stream instability that transforms the long bunch into a train of micro-bunches is less sensitive to density inhomogeneity than are the accelerated particles. The bunch freely passes through increased density regi…
Stable high-transformer ratio beam-wakefield acceleration in cusp plasma channels
本文通过三维粒子模拟，研究在尖峰等离子体通道中利用结构化电子束激发高变压器比尾场，实现见证束的高效加速，并避免横向束流不稳定性。
In recent experiments ultra-relativistic femtosecond electron bunches were generated by a Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) in different regimes. Here we predict that even attosecond bunches can be generated by an LWFA due to the fast betatron phase mixing within a femtosecond electron bunch. The attosecond bunches are stable outside the LWFA and can propagate in vacuum many tens of centimeter without significant change in their duration. Our calculations show that evidence for the formation of attosecond bunches can be found in the spectrum of coherent betatron radiation from LWFA's.
Earlier, the authors found a mechanism for the sequence of short relativistic electron bunches, which leads to resonant excitation of the wakefield, even if the repetition frequency of bunches differs from the plasma frequency. In this case, the synchronization of frequencies is restored due to defocusing of the bunches which get into the bad phases with respect to the plasma wave. However, in this case, the bunches are lost, which as a result of this do not participate in the excitation of the wakefield. In this paper, numerical simulation was used to study the dynamics of electron bunches an…
A new method for diagnosing the temporal characteristics of ultrashort electron bunches with linear energy chirp generated from a laser wakefield accelerator is described. When the ionization-injected bunch interacts with the back of the drive laser, it is deflected and stretched along the direction of the electric field of the laser. Upon exiting the plasma, if the bunch goes through a narrow slit in front of the dipole magnet that disperses the electrons in the plane of the laser polarization, it can form a series of bunchlets that have different energies but are separated by half a laser wa…
Profiling and variation of laser pulse parameters as a way to preserve the stability of self-injected bunches during excitation of a wakefield in plasma
该研究针对等离子体尾场激发中自注入束团易因横向电子感应加速振荡损毁的问题，通过X射线激光脉冲链的参数整形与调控，找到了获得稳定高质量束团的参数，为解决该问题提供了可行方案。
It is shown that electron injection into a laser-driven plasma bubble can be manipulated by applying an external magnetic field in the presence of a plasma density gradient. The down-ramp of the density-tailored plasma locally reduces the plasma wave phase velocity, which triggers injection. The longitudinal magnetic field dynamically induces an expanding hole in the electron density distribution at the rear of the wake bubble, which reduces the peak electron velocity in its vicinity. Electron injection is suppressed when the electron velocity drops below the phase velocity, which depends on t…
The ionization-induced injection in laser wakefield acceleration has been recently demonstrated to be a promising injection scheme. However, the energy spread controlling in this mechanism remains a challenge because continuous injection in a mixed gas target is usually inevitable. Here we propose that by use of certain initially unmatched laser pulses, the electron injection can be constrained to the very front region of the mixed gas target, typically in a length of a few hundreds micro meters determined by laser-driven bubble deformation. Under some optimized conditions, the injection regio…
Drive particle beams in linear or weakly nonlinear regimes of the plasma wakefield accelerator quickly reach a radial equilibrium with the wakefield, which is described in detail for the first time. The equilibrium beam state and self-consistent wakefields are obtained by combining analytical relationships, numerical integration, and first-principle simulations. In the equilibrium state, the beam density is strongly peaked near the axis, the beam radius is constant along the beam, and longitudinal variation of the focusing strength is balanced by varying beam emittance. The transverse momentum…
In-situ Generation of Polarized Attosecond Positron Bunches via Radiation-Wakefield Induced Two-Photon Pairs
提出在单一等离子体阶段中通过辐射尾场诱导双光子对产生，原位生成并加速极化阿秒正电子束，实现百阿秒、GeV级、高密度且保持极化的正电子束团，同时解决产生、极化、压缩和注入问题。
Electron bunch injection at an angle into a laser wakefield
在激光尾流场加速器中，外部注入比等离子体波长长的电子束团可以产生能量扩展为几个百分点的飞秒超相对论束团。对不同结构的激光尾流场中的电子束团（如光阴极射频直线加速器产生的电子束团）注入进行了广泛研究。本文研究了一种新的外注入方式，即电子束团以小角度注入尾场。这样可以避免有质动力散射以及真空等离子体过渡区，这往往会破坏注入聚束。在我们的模拟中，激光脉冲动力学的影响也被考虑在内。结果表明，在一个角度注入可以提供压缩和加速电子束团小于2%的能量扩展。该方案的另一个优点是，它对注入聚束的尺寸的要求不那么严格，并且有可能捕获更多的电荷。
A train of short charged particle bunches can efficiently drive a strong plasma wakefield over a long propagation distance only if all bunches reside in focusing and decelerating phases of the wakefield. This is shown possible with equidistant bunch trains, but requires the bunch charge to increase along the train and the plasma frequency to be higher than the bunch repetition frequency.
We analyze the transverse stability for a configuration of multiple gaussian bunches subject to the self-generated plasma wakefield. Through a semi-analytical approach we first study the equilibrium configuration for the modulated beam and then we investigate the evolution of the equilibrium configuration due to the emittance-driven expansion of the beam front that results in a rigid backward shift. The rear-directed shift brings the modulated beam out of the equilibrium, with the possibility for some of the bunch particles to be lost with a consequent deterioration of the driver. We look ther…
Dynamics of Femtosecond Electron Bunches
在激光尾流场加速器中，一束持续时间为等离子体波周期量级的短脉冲激光将激发出异常强的等离子体尾流波（激光尾流场）。最近关于激光尾场加速的实验[Nature（London）431，p.535，p.538，p.541（2004）]证明了具有百分之几数量级的相对低能量扩展的超短（具有几飞秒的持续时间）相对论性电子聚束的产生。我们研究了这种聚束在真空和激光尾流场中的动力学。结果表明，在这两种情况下，强大的聚束动力学已经在几毫米的传播距离。在真空中，束团半径和发射度迅速增长。后者是一群人的可聚焦性。我们发现，当飞秒束团在通道引导的激光尾流场中加速时，对于实际的束团长度，束团长度近似守恒。然而，在电子感应加速器频率的扩展导致快速电子感应加速器相位混合在轴上注入的聚束包络。当束团离轴注入激光尾流场中时，束团退相干导致束团归一化发射度的显著增加，在某些情况下，加速后束团的能量扩展也会增加。我们还讨论了一种可能的两级激光尾场加速器。
Plasma-based accelerators sustain accelerating gradients which are several orders greater than obtained in conventional accelerators. Focusing of electron and positron beams by wakefield, excited in plasma, in electron-positron collider is very important. The focusing mechanism in the plasma, in which all electron bunches of a sequence are focused identically, has been proposed by authors earlier. The mechanism of focusing of a sequence of relativistic positron bunches in plasma, in which all positron bunches of sequence are focused identically and uniformly, has been investigated in this pape…
Dynamics of self-injected electron bunches has been numerically simulated in blowout regime at self-consistent change of electron bunch acceleration by plasma wakefield, excited by a laser pulse, to additional their acceleration by wakefield, excited by self-injected bunch. Advantages of acceleration by pulse train and bunch self-cleaning have been considered.
Here we discuss the possibility of employment of ultrarelativistic electron and proton bunches for generation of high plasma wakefields in dense plasmas due to the Cherenkov resonance plasma-bunch interaction. We estimate the maximum amplitude of such a wake and minimum system length at which the maximum amplitude can be generated at the given bunch parameters.
We explore the role of the background plasma ion motion in self-modulated plasma wakefield accelerators. We employ J. Dawson's plasma sheet model to derive expressions for the transverse plasma electric field and ponderomotive force in the narrow bunch limit. We use these results to determine the on-set of the ion dynamics, and demonstrate that the ion motion could occur in self-modulated plasma wakefield accelerators. Simulations show the motion of the plasma ions can lead to the early suppression of the self-modulation instability and of the accelerating fields. The background plasma ion mot…
Efficient Acceleration of High-Quality GeV-Electron Bunches in a Hybrid Laser- and Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
该研究通过混合激光与束驱动等离子体wakefield加速器，实现了高效率的能量传输，显著提升了驱动束到见证束的能量转换效率。
We present the first demonstration of multi-GeV laser wakefield acceleration in a fully optically formed plasma waveguide, with an acceleration gradient as high as 25 GeV/m. The guide was formed via self-waveguiding of <15 J, 45 fs (<~300 TW) pulses over 20 cm in a low density hydrogen gas jet, with accelerated electron bunches simultaneously driven up to 5 GeV in a milliradian divergence quasi-monoenergetic peak of relative energy width ~15% and charge of at least ~10 picocoulombs. Energy gain is inversely correlated with on-axis waveguide density in the range N_e0=(1.3-3.2)x10^17 cm^(-3). We…
The transverse self-modulation of ultra-relativistic, long lepton bunches in high-density plasmas is explored through full-scale particle-in-cell simulations. We demonstrate that long SLAC-type electron and positron bunches can become strongly self-modulated over centimeter distances, leading to wake excitation in the blowout regime with accelerating fields in excess of 20 GV/m. We show that particles energy variations exceeding 10 GeV can occur in meter-long plasmas. We find that the self-modulation of positively and negatively charged bunches differ when the blowout is reached. Seeding the s…
Total charge and energy evaluations for the electron beams generated in the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is the primary step in the determination of the required target and laser parameters. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations is an efficient numerical tool that can provide such evaluations unless the effect of numerical dispersion is not diminished. The numerical dispersion, which is specific for the PIC modeling, affects not only the dephasing lengths in LWFA but also the total amount of the self-injected electrons. A numerical error of the order of $10^{-4}-10^{-3}$ in the calculation…
Ponderomotive scattering of an electron-bunch before injection into a laser wakefield
为了激光尾流场加速的目的，事实证明，比等离子体波长长的电子聚束的注入也可以产生具有相对低的能量扩展的加速的飞秒聚束。这是非常令人感兴趣的，因为可以提供这样的注入聚束，例如，最先进的光电阴极射频枪在这里，我们指出，当电子束团注入尾流场中，重要的是要考虑的有质动力散射的注入聚束的激光脉冲在真空区位于前面的等离子体。在注入的聚束的低能量下，这种散射导致收集效率的显著下降。通过较低强度的激光脉冲和相对高的注入能量可以达到较大的收集效率。我们还估算了注入电子的最小俘获能和俘获束团的长度。
Acceleration rate enhancement by negative plasma density gradient in multi-bunch driven plasma wakefield accelerator
本文提出在多束驱动的等离子体尾场加速器中引入负等离子体密度梯度，通过仅调节驱动束与波的相对相位并保持波相位稳定，从而在有限长度内提升被加速束的能量增益。
The plasma wakefield amplitudes which could be achieved via the modulation of a long proton bunch are investigated. We find that in the limit of long bunches compared to the plasma wavelength, the strength of the accelerating fields is directly proportional to the number of particles in the drive bunch and inversely proportional to the square of the transverse bunch size. The scaling laws were tested and verified in detailed simulations using parameters of existing proton accelerators, and large electric fields were achieved, reaching 1 GV/m for LHC bunches. Energy gains for test electrons bey…
We report here an exact analytical travelling wave solution for nonlinear electron plasma wave excited by an intense ultra-relativistic proton beam. It brings out the underlying physics of longitudinal electric field characteristics of the excited wake wave formed behind the drive beam. The results are further supplemented by a fully relativistic particle in cell (PIC) code OSIRIS in 2D geometry. The plasma and beam parameters in the simulation are chosen in conformity with experimental work and it provides us the anticipated axial and transverse electric field profiles. The investigation is f…
In the Phase 2 of the AWAKE first experimental run (from May to November 2018), an electron beam was used to probe and test proton-driven wakefield acceleration in a rubidium plasma column. In this work, we analyze the overall charge capture and shot-to-shot reproducibility of the proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator with various electron bunch injection parameters. The witness electron bunches were produced using an RF-gun equipped with a Cs2Te photocathode illuminated by a tailorable ultrafast deep ultraviolet (UV) laser pulse. The construction of the UV beam optical system enabled app…
Wakefield regeneration in a resonantly driven plasma accelerator
针对等离子体加速器亮度受重复率和单次电荷量限制的问题，提出利用驱动束团列周期性加载尾场消除能量转移限制，通过AWAKE方案模拟验证，仅用部分驱动列实现加速电荷量翻倍以提升亮度。
Electron source based on emergence of self-injected electron bunch at plasma wakefield excitation by a TW laser pulse
本文通过模拟数十毫焦、1-2太瓦激光脉冲激发等离子体尾场，研究均匀与高斯等离子体轮廓对自注入电子束能量的影响，证明可产生相对论性自注入束团，作为电子源用于激光加速实验。
Plasma-based accelerators (PBAs) driven by either intense lasers (laser wakefield accelerators, LWFAs) or particle beams (plasma wakefield accelerators, PWFAs), can accelerate charged particles at extremely high gradients compared to conventional radio-frequency (RF) accelerators. In the past two decades, great strides have been made in this field, making PBA a candidate for next-generation light sources and colliders. However, these challenging applications necessarily require beams with good stability, high quality, controllable polarization and excellent reproducibility. To date, such beams…
The spatial structure of an ultra-low emittance electron bunch in a plasma wakefield blowout regime is studied. The full Liénard-Wiechert potentials are considered for mutual inter-particle interactions in the framework of the equilibrium slice model (ESM). This model uses the quasi-static theory which allows to solve the Liénard-Wiechert potentials without knowledge of the electrons' history. The equilibrium structure we find is similar to already observed hexagonal lattices but shows topological defects. Scaling laws for interparticle distances are obtained from numerical simulations and ana…
High brightness, symmetric electron bunch generation in a plasma wakefield accelerator via a radially-polarized plasma photocathode
本文扩展等离子体光阴极方案，采用径向极化激光产生高电荷、高亮度且发射度对称的电子束，并通过贝叶斯优化评估性能，发现其在最优加载下优于线极化方案。
Laser-plasma electron accelerators can be used to produce high-intensity X-rays, as electrons accelerated in wakefields emit radiation due to betatron oscillations.Such X-ray sources inherit the features of the electron beam; sub-femtosecond electron bunches produce betatron sources of the same duration, which in turn allow probing matter on ultrashort time scales. In this paper we show, via Particle-in-Cell simulations, that attosecond electron bunches can be obtained using low-energy, ultra-short laser beams both in the self-injection and the controlled injection regimes at low plasma densit…
An optical injection scheme into the laser wakefield accelerator by preceding injection pulse is investigated by means of 3D numerical particle-in-cell simulations. Quasimonoenergetic hundred-pC electron bunches as short as 6 fs can be generated. Optimal beam separation distance is found at the intersection point of the injection beam bubble with the collection volume for transverse injection into the accelerator beam bubble. It approximately corresponds to the plasma wavelength. The main advantage of this scheme is the localized injection of high charge. This injection mechanism can be useful…
Generating multi-GeV electron bunches using single stage laser wakefield acceleration in a 3D nonlinear regime
等离子体中的空间电荷波以比现有加速器大几个数量级的梯度加速带电粒子的非凡能力已经得到了很好的证明。我们发展了一个唯象的框架，激光尾场加速（LWFA）在三维非线性制度，其中等离子体电子被驱逐的短脉冲激光的辐射压力，导致几乎完全井喷。我们的理论提供了一个配方设计LWFA给定的激光和等离子体参数和估计的数量和能量的加速电子是否自注入或外部注入。这些公式适用于自引导以及外部引导脉冲（例如，通过等离子体通道）。我们用粒子模拟器（PIC）模拟了一个30 fs、200 T W的激光与一个0.75 cm长、密度为1.5*10^18 cm^-3的等离子体相互作用，产生一个1.5 GeV、电荷为0.3nC的超短（10 fs）单能自注入电子束。对于未来更高能量的加速器应用，我们提出了一个参数空间，这是不同于Gordienko和Pukhov [等离子体物理学12，043109（2005）]所描述的，因为它涉及较低的密度和较宽的光斑尺寸，同时保持强度相对恒定。我们发现，这有助于增加输出电子束能量，同时保持高效率。
We demonstrate a novel approach to the generation of femtosecond electron bunch trains via laser-driven wakefield acceleration. We use two independent high-intensity laser pulses, a drive, and injector, each creating their own plasma wakes. The interaction of the laser pulses and their wakes results in a periodic injection of free electrons in the drive plasma wake via several mechanisms, including ponderomotive drift, wake-wake interference, and pre-acceleration of electrons directly by strong laser fields. Electron trains were generated with up to 4 quasi-monoenergetic bunches, each separate…
A linear theory of a wakefield excitation in a plasma-dielectric accelerating structure by a drive electron bunch in the case of an off-axis bunch injection has been constructed. The structure under investigation is a round dielectric-loaded metal waveguide with a channel for the charged particles, filled with homogeneous cold plasma. Derived theory was used to investigate numerically the spatial distribution of the bunch-excited wakefield components, which act on both the drive and witness bunches.
By means of hollow plasma, multiple proton bunches work well in driving nonlinear plasma wakefields and accelerate electrons to energy frontier with preserved beam quality. However, the acceleration of positrons is different because the accelerating structure is strongly charge dependent. There is a discrepancy between keeping a small normalized emittance and a small energy spread. This results from the conflict that the plasma electrons used to provide focusing to the multiple proton bunches dilute the positron bunch. By loading an extra electron bunch to repel the plasma electrons and meanwh…
Based on a model of plasma wakefield in the strongly nonlinear (bubble) regime, we develop a lowest-order perturbation theory for the components of electromagnetic fields inside and outside the bubble using the assumption of small thickness of the electron sheath on the boundary of the bubble. Unlike previous models, we derive simple explicit expressions for the components of electromagnetic fields not only in the vicinity of the center of the bubble, but in the whole volume of the bubble (including areas of driving or accelerated bunches) as well as outside it. Moreover, we apply the results …
Seeded self-modulation in a plasma can transform a long proton beam into a train of micro-bunches that can excite a strong wakefield over long distances, but this needs the plasma to have a certain density profile with a short-scale ramp up. For the parameters of the AWAKE experiment at CERN, we numerically study which density profiles are optimal if the self-modulation is seeded by a short electron bunch. With the optimal profiles, it is possible to "freeze" the wakefield at approximately half the wavebreaking level. High-energy electron bunches (160 MeV) are less efficient seeds than low-ene…
We investigate the effects of a Stern-Gerlach-type addition to the Lorentz force on electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator. The Stern-Gerlach-type terms are found to generate a family of trajectories describing electrons that surf along the plasma density wave driven by a laser pulse. Such trajectories could lead to an increase in the size of an electron bunch, which may have implications for attempts to exploit such bunches in future free electron lasers.
We present a detailed analysis of the features and capabilities of Wakefield-Induced Ionization (WII) injection in the blowout regime of beam driven plasma accelerators. This mechanism exploits the electric wakefields to ionize electrons from a dopant gas and trap them in a well-defined region of the accelerating and focusing wake phase, leading to the formation of high-quality witness-bunches [Martinez de la Ossa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 245003 (2013)]. The electron-beam drivers must feature high-peak currents ($I_b^0\gtrsim 8.5~\mathrm{kA}$) and a duration comparable to the plasma wavel…
Efficient production of high-charge electron bunches in laser wakefield acceleration using a mid-infrared (MIR) laser pulse is investigated by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Only a 2.5 TW (100 mJ, 40 fs) MIR laser pulse with a wavelength of 1.5 um can produce a quasi-monoenergetic electron (QME) bunch with a peak energy of 65 MeV in the blow-out regime. The simulation results are compared with those for the experiment showing the generation of 40-60 MeV QME bunches with more than 10^8 electrons using an 8 TW laser pulse with a wavelength of 0.8 um. The number of electrons in the…
In the present work, we demonstrate for the first time a proof-of-principle experiment for nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield acceleration. The nanoparticles, generated through laser ablation of aluminium, were introduced into the plasma and used to trigger the injection of electrons into the nonlinear plasma wake excited by a high power femtosecond laser. In this experiment, a significant enhancement of the electron beam energy, energy spread and divergence is obtained compared with the case when electrons are self-injected. The best quality electron bunches presented peak energy up to 338…
High energy particle accelerators have been crucial in providing a deeper understanding of fundamental particles and the forces that govern their interactions. In order to increase the energy or reduce the size of the accelerator, new acceleration schemes need to be developed. Plasma wakefield acceleration, in which the electrons in a plasma are excited, leading to strong electric fields, is one such promising novel acceleration technique. Pioneering experiments have shown that an intense laser pulse or electron bunch traversing a plasma, drives electric fields of 10s GV/m and above. These val…
Generation of meter-scale hydrogen plasmas and efficient, pump-depletion-limited wakefield excitation using 10 GeV electron bunches
本研究依托SLAC的FACET-II装置，用10 GeV时间结构化电子束团生成米级氢等离子体并激发高效尾场，验证了泵浦耗尽效应与能量传输效率，为提升PWFA重复频率和能量效率提供了实验支撑。
We demonstrate laser wakefield acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic electron bunches up to 15 MeV at 1 kHz repetition rate with 2.5 pC charge per bunch and a core with < 7 mrad beam divergence. Acceleration is driven by 5 fs, < 2.7 mJ laser pulses incident on a thin, near-critical density hydrogen gas jet. Low beam divergence is attributed to reduced sensitivity to laser carrier envelope phase slip, achieved in two ways using laser polarization and gas jet control: (1) electron injection into the wake on the gas jet's plasma density downramp, and (2) use of circularly polarized drive pulses. Un…
A beam of ultrarelativistic charged particles in a plasma can reach equilibrium with its own radial wakefield and then propagate with little change in shape. If some co-moving perturbation appears ahead of the beam, it may or may not destroy the beam with its wakefield, depending on the phase and amplitude of the wakefield. We numerically study which perturbations can destroy a single short bunch or a train of many short bunches at the parameters of interest for plasma wakefield acceleration in an axysimmetric configuration, and how fast. We find that there are particularly dangerous wakefield…
We present experimental results on a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) driven by high-current electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA). In this staged setup stable and high quality (low divergence and low energy spread) electron beams are generated at an optically-generated hydrodynamic shock in the PWFA. The energy stability of the beams produced by that arrangement in the PWFA stage is comparable to both single-stage laser accelerators and plasma wakefield accelerators driven by conventional accelerators. Simulations support that the intrinsic insensitivity of PWFAs to driv…
We present a novel electron injection scheme for plasma wakefield acceleration. The method is based on recently proposed technique of fast electron generation via laser-solid interaction: a femtosecond laser pulse with the energy of tens of mJ hitting a dense plasma target at $45^o$ angle expels a well collimated bunch of electrons and accelerates these close to the specular direction up to several MeVs. We study trapping of these fast electrons by a quasi-linear wakefield excited by an external beam driver in a surrounding low density plasma. This configuration can be relevant to the AWAKE ex…
An electron injector for the Electron-Ion Collider based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration
本文提出利用质子驱动等离子体wake场加速技术为电子离子对撞机设计电子束注入方案，采用RHIC现有蓝环提供质子束，利用现有EIC极化电子源，估算出平均极化度约70%和1e34 cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$的亮度。
Experimental Observation of Motion of Ions in a Resonantly Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
实验证实等离子体尾场加速器中离子运动效应与离子质量成反比，由有质动力驱动，并随尾场振幅变化，表现为束团尾部。
Wakefield acceleration of self-injected bunch in a conical plasma channels
针对激光尾场加速中自注入粒子束因超驱动速度移出最大加速相位的问题，提出采用锥形渐变通道通过缩小气泡尺寸同步束与尾波相位，所得相关参数变化关系可为后续研究提供参考。
We show that the hosing instability can be suppressed after the saturation of the self-modulation instability of a long particle bunch if the plasma density perturbation is linear. We derive scalings for maximum bunch tilts and seeds for the self-modulation instability to ensure stable propagation beyond saturation of self-modulation. Numerical solutions of the reduced hosing equations and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations confirm our analytical findings. Our results may also apply when a train of particle bunches or laser pulses excites a linear wake.
The radiation emission from electrons wiggling in a laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) process, being initially considered as a parasitic effect for the electron energy gain, can eventually serve as a novel X-ray source, that could be used for diagnostic purposes. Although several schemes for enhancing the X-ray emission in LWFA has been recently proposed and analyzed, finding an efficient way to use and control these radiation emissions remains an important problem. Based on analytical estimates and 3D particle-in-cell simulations, we here propose and examine a new method utilizing two colli…
Single cycle laser pulse propagating inside a plasma causes controllable asymmetric plasma electron expulsion from laser according to laser carrier envelope phase (CEP) and forms an oscillating plasma bubble. Bubble's transverse wakefield is modified, exhibiting periodic modulation. Injection scheme for a laser wakefield accelerator combining a single cycle low frequency laser pulse and a many cycle high frequency laser pulse is proposed. The co-propagating laser pulses form a transversely oscillating wakefield which efficiently traps and accelerates electrons from background plasma. By tuning…
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