Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy

We report on experimental investigations of plasma wave structures in a plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) stage which is driven by electron beams from a preceding laser plasma accelerator. Femtosecond optical probing is utilized to allow for direct visualization of the plasma dynamics inside the...

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Main Authors: Susanne Schöbel, Richard Pausch, Yen-Yu Chang, Sébastien Corde, Jurjen Couperus Cabadağ, Alexander Debus, Hao Ding, Andreas Döpp, F Moritz Foerster, Max Gilljohann, Florian Haberstroh, Thomas Heinemann, Bernhard Hidding, Stefan Karsch, Alexander Köhler, Olena Kononenko, Thomas Kurz, Alastair Nutter, Klaus Steiniger, Patrick Ufer, Alberto Martinez de la Ossa, Ulrich Schramm, Arie Irman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac87c9