| მთავარი > Experimental Progress on a 1 GeV Laser Accelerator at LBNL |
| Article | |
| Title | Experimental Progress on a 1 GeV Laser Accelerator at LBNL |
| Author(s) | Leemans, Wim ; Cowan, Thomas ; Esarey, Eric ; Filip, Catalin ; Geddes, Cameron G R ; Gonsalves, Anthony J ; Hooker, Simon ; Michel, Estelle ; Michel, Pierre ; Nagler, Bob ; Nakamura, Kei ; Schröder, Carl B ; Spence, D ; Toth, Csaba ; Van Tilborg, J |
| Affiliation | (LBNL, Berkeley) ; (LBNL/CBP, Berkeley, California) ; (OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon) ; (University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada) |
| Publication | 2005 |
| Imprint | 2005 |
| Note | Manuscript not submitted to the proceedings |
| In: | 21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.e-proc. TPAE019 |
| Subject category | Accelerators and Storage Rings |
| Abstract | Experimental progress towards the realization of a 1 GeV laser-driven plasma-based accelerator at the L’OASIS facility of LBNL will be discussed. The design of the 1 GeV accelerator module consists of two components: (1) an all-optical electron injector and (2) a plasma channel for laser guiding and electron acceleration to high energy via the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) mechanism. Experimental results on the injector development include the demonstration of laser guiding at relativistic intensities in preformed plasmas and production of quasi-monochromatic electron beams with energy around 100 MeV. Recently guiding experiments using the 100 TW-class laser upgrade of the L’OASIS facility have been started with capillary discharges. The capillary system provides multi-cm scale plasma channels in hydrogen gas at densities on the order of 10<sup><font size="-1">18 |