Direct Laser Acceleration in Underdense Plasmas with Multi-PW Lasers: A Path to High-Charge, GeV-Class Electron Bunches
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.125001" target="_blank" >https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.125001</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.125001" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.125001</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Direct Laser Acceleration in Underdense Plasmas with Multi-PW Lasers: A Path to High-Charge, GeV-Class Electron Bunches
Original language description
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide hundreds of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available lasers. Here we demonstrate the key role of electron transverse displacement in the acceleration and use it to analytically predict the expected maximum electron energies. The energy scaling is shown to be in agreement with full-scale quasi-3D particle-in-cell simulations of a laser pulse propagating through a preformed guiding channel and can be directly used for optimizing DLA in near-future laser facilities. The strategy towards optimizing DLA through matched laser focusing is presented for a wide range of plasma densities paired with current and near-future laser technology. Electron energies in excess of 10 GeV are accessible for lasers at I∼1021 W/cm2.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review Letters
ISSN
0031-9007
e-ISSN
1079-7114
Volume of the periodical
132
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
125001
UT code for WoS article
001198669400004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85188715538