Effect of halo on the stability of electron bunches in laser wakefield acceleration.

Autor: N. C. Pathak, T. P. Otsuka, K. Sueda, N. Nakanii, S. Masuda, A. G. Zhidkov, T. Hosokai, R. Kodama, K. Iwasa, H. Nakahara, N. Takeguchi, Y. Mizuta, H. Nakamura
Zdroj: Europhysics Letters; Feb2016, Vol. 113 Issue 3, p1-1, 1p
Abstrakt: The stability of short electron bunches formed and accelerated by laser wakefield in gas jets strongly depends on parameters of pre-plasma due to poor pulse focus-ability. Instabilities provoked by light energy remained out of focus spots (halo), usually 30–50%, are shown to result in broad and spotted transverse distributions of electrons in uniform gas jets radiated by high-contrast laser pulses. Shaped pre-plasma may drastically improve pulse focus-ability with stable, well-pointed, and well-collimated electron bunches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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