Development of a Laser wakefield acceleration source as a secondary radiation driver
Development of a Laser wakefield acceleration source as a secondary radiation driver
Couperus, J. P.; Jochmann, A.; Köhler, A.; Messmer, M.; Zarini, O.; Debus, A.; Hübl, A.; Widera, R.; Bussmann, M.; Sauerbrey, R.; Cowan, T.; Schramm, U.; Irman, A.
Abstract
In laser wakefield electron acceleration a high intensity ultrashort laser pulse drives plasma density waves, inducing a high accelerating field gradient (~GV/m) which can accelerate electrons to high energies within a very short distance.
For the development of secondary radiation sources, the maximization of the bunch charge is important. For this reason we investigate the beam-loading effect at the self-injected highly nonlinear regime. Beam-loading deteriorates the accelerating field structure and limits the maximum bunch charge.
Supported by intensive Particle-in-Cell code simulations run on a GPU-cluster (using the PIConGPU code), we aim on developing a stable high peak current (hundreds of kA) electron source.
Keywords: laser wakefield electron acceleration LWFA plasma PIConGPU
Beteiligte Forschungsanlagen
- Strahlungsquelle ELBE DOI: 10.17815/jlsrf-2-58
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- DOI: 10.17815/jlsrf-2-58 is cited by this (Id 21632) publication
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Poster
Advanced School on Laser Applications at Accelerator, 29.09.-03.10.2014, Salamanca, Spain
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