Monoenergetic laser wakefield acceleration by N. E. Andreev, S. V. Kuznetsov, I. V. Pogorelsky

“…Three dimensional test particle simulations are applied to optimization of the plasma-channeled laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) operating in a weakly nonlinear regime. …”
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Directions in plasma wakefield acceleration by Hidding, B, Foster, B, Hogan, M, Muggli, P, Rosenzweig, J

“…This introductory article is a synopsis of the status and prospects of particle-beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA). Conceptual and experimental breakthroughs obtained over the last years have initiated a rapid growth of the research field, and increased maturity of underlying technology allows an increasing number of research groups to engage in experimental R&D.; We briefly describe the fundamental mechanisms of PWFA, from which its chief attractions arise. …”

Progress in Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration by Bernhard Hidding, Ralph Assmann, Michael Bussmann, David Campbell, Yen-Yu Chang, Sébastien Corde, Jurjen Couperus Cabadağ, Alexander Debus, Andreas Döpp, Max Gilljohann, J. Götzfried, F. Moritz Foerster, Florian Haberstroh, Fahim Habib, Thomas Heinemann, Dominik Hollatz, Arie Irman, Malte Kaluza, Stefan Karsch, Olena Kononenko, Alexander Knetsch, Thomas Kurz, Stephan Kuschel, Alexander Köhler, Alberto Martinez de la Ossa, Alastair Nutter, Richard Pausch, Gaurav Raj, Ulrich Schramm, Susanne Schöbel, Andreas Seidel, Klaus Steiniger, Patrick Ufer, Mark Yeung, Omid Zarini, Matt Zepf

Subjects: “…plasma wakefield acceleration…”
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Laser wakefield acceleration in magnetized plasma by Pallavi Jha, Akanksha Saroch, Rohit Kumar Mishra, Ajay Kumar Upadhyay

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Plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET by Hogan, M, Raubenheimer, T, Seryi, A, Muggli, P, Katsouleas, T, Huang, C, Lu, W, An, W, Marsh, K, Mori, W, Clayton, C, Joshi, C

“…This paper describes the FACET facility, summarizes the state of the art for plasma wakefield accelerators and discusses the plasma wakefield accelerator program to be conducted at FACET over the next five years. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.…”

Multi-pulse laser wakefield acceleration by Jonnerby, J

“…<p>This thesis presents results towards the realisation of high-repetition rate laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA). I have framed the contributions around the development of multi- pulse laser wakefield acceleration (MP-LWFA), which is a scheme using a train of laser pulses rather than a single pulse to excite a plasma wakefield. …”

Electron bunch evolution in laser-wakefield acceleration by D. E. Cardenas, S. Chou, E. Wallin, J. Xu, L. Hofmann, A. Buck, K. Schmid, D. E. Rivas, B. Shen, A. Gonoskov, M. Marklund, L. Veisz

“…We report on systematic and high-precision measurements of the evolution of electron beams in a laser-wakefield accelerator (LWFA). Utilizing shock-front injection, a technique providing stable, tunable and high-quality electron bunches, acceleration and deceleration of few-MeV quasimonoenergetic beams were measured with cutting-edge technology sub-5-fs and 8-fs laser pulses. …”
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Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration in the bubble regime by Kyle G. Miller, Jacob R. Pierce, Manfred V. Ambat, Jessica L. Shaw, Kale Weichman, Warren B. Mori, Dustin H. Froula, John P. Palastro

“…Abstract Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) have electric fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those of conventional accelerators, promising an attractive, small-scale alternative for next-generation light sources and lepton colliders. …”
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Increasing the transformer ratio at the Argonne wakefield accelerator by C. Jing, J. G. Power, M. Conde, W. Liu, Z. Yusof, A. Kanareykin, W. Gai

“…This plays an important role in the collinear wakefield acceleration scheme. A high transformer ratio is desirable since it leads to a higher overall efficiency under similar conditions (e.g. the same beam loading, the same structure, etc.). …”
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Dimuon production by laser-wakefield accelerated electrons by A. I. Titov, B. Kämpfer, H. Takabe

“…We analyze μ^{+}μ^{-} pair production generated by high-energy electrons emerging from a laser-wakefield accelerator. The μ^{+}μ^{-} pairs are created in a solid thick high-Z target, following the electron accelerating plasma region. …”
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Radiation reaction-dominated regime of wakefield acceleration by A A Golovanov, E N Nerush, I Yu Kostyukov

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Observation of plasma wakefield acceleration in the underdense regime by N. Barov, J. B. Rosenzweig, M. E. Conde, W. Gai, J. G. Power

“…Initial experiments which have explored the physics of the underdense (blowout) regime of the plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility are reported. …”
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Laser-plasma lens for laser-wakefield accelerators by R. Lehe, C. Thaury, E. Guillaume, A. Lifschitz, V. Malka

“…Thanks to their compactness and unique properties, laser-wakefield accelerators are currently considered for several innovative applications. …”
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Emittance and divergence of laser wakefield accelerated electrons by Christopher M. S. Sears, Alexander Buck, Karl Schmid, Julia Mikhailova, Ferenc Krausz, Laszlo Veisz

“…We apply the pepper-pot method to measure in a single shot the transverse emittance of quasimonoenergetic electrons with 20 MeV energy produced by laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA). The large divergence of LWFA beams (>1  mrad typical) compared to conventional rf accelerator beams places additional restrictions on the pepper-pot design. …”
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Simulation of proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration by K. V. Lotov

“…Proton beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration was recently proposed as a way to bring electrons to TeV energy range in a single plasma section. …”
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Seeded self-modulated laser wakefield acceleration by N. E. Andreev, S. V. Kuznetsov, A. A. Pogosova, L. C. Steinhauer, W. D. Kimura

“…A new approach to laser-wakefield acceleration (LWFA) has been analyzed. A seed electron beam bunch precedes the laser pulse into the plasma. …”
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Emittance preservation in a plasma-wakefield accelerator by Lindstrøm, CA, Beinortaitė, J, Björklund Svensson, J, Boulton, L, Chappell, J, Diederichs, S, Foster, B, Garland, JM, González Caminal, P, Loisch, G, Peña, F, Schröder, S, Thévenet, M, Wesch, S, Wing, M, Wood, JC, D’Arcy, R, Osterhoff, J

“…Radio-frequency particle accelerators are engines of discovery, powering high-energy physics and photon science, but are also large and expensive due to their limited accelerating fields. Plasma-wakefield accelerators (PWFAs) provide orders-of-magnitude stronger fields in the charge-density wave behind a particle bunch travelling in a plasma, promising particle accelerators of greatly reduced size and cost. …”

Recovery time of a plasma-wakefield accelerator by D’Arcy, R, Chappell, JA, Beinortaite, J, Diederichs, S, Boyle, G, Foster, B, Garland, MJ, Caminal, PG, Lindstrøm, CA, Loisch, G, Schreiber, S, Schröder, S, Shalloo, RJ, Thévenet, M, Wesch, S, Wing, M, Osterhoff, J

Transverse emittance growth in staged laser-wakefield acceleration by T. Mehrling, J. Grebenyuk, F. S. Tsung, K. Floettmann, J. Osterhoff

“…In addition, the analytic theory enables the quantitative prediction of emittance degradation in two consecutive accelerators coupled by free-drift sections, excluding this as a scheme for effective emittance-growth suppression, and thus suggests the necessity of beam-matching sections between acceleration stages with fundamental implications on the overall design of staged laser-wakefield accelerators.…”
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Numerical optimization of a plasma wakefield acceleration experiment by K. V. Lotov, V. S. Tikhanovich

“…One possible way to demonstrate both the efficiency and beam quality in a plasma wakefield accelerator is to prepare matched drive and accelerated beams by removing a central slice from a single high-quality electron bunch (parent beam). …”
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