GeV electron beams from a centimeter-scale channel guided laser wakefield accelerator

Laser wakefield accelerators can produce electric fields of order 10-100 GV/m, suitable for acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies. The wakefields are excited by a relativistically intense laser pulse propagating through a plasma and have a phase velocity determined by the group velocity...

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Main Authors: Nakamura, K, Nagler, B, Toth, C, Geddes, C, Schroeder, C, Esarey, E, Leemans, W, Gonsalves, A, Hooker, S
Format: Conference item
Published: 2007