Energy Enhancement and Energy Spread Compression of Electron Beams in a Hybrid Laser-Plasma Wakefield Accelerator.

Autor: Wu, Ying, Yu, Changhai, Qin, Zhiyong, Wang, Wentao, Zhang, Zhijun, Qi, Rong, Feng, Ke, Ke, Lintong, Chen, Yu, Wang, Cheng, Yang, Xiaojun, Leng, Yuxin, Liu, Jiansheng, Li, Ruxin, Xu, Zhizhan
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences (2076-3417); 6/15/2019, Vol. 9 Issue 12, p2561, 9p
Abstrakt: We experimentally demonstrated the generation of narrow energy-spread electron beams with enhanced energy levels using a hybrid laser-plasma wakefield accelerator. An experiment featuring two-color electron beams showed that after the laser pump reached the depletion length, the laser-wakefield acceleration (LWFA) gradually evolved into the plasma-driven wakefield acceleration (PWFA), and thereafter, the PWFA dominated the electron acceleration. The energy spread of the electron beams was further improved by energy chirp compensation. Particle-in-cell simulations were performed to verify the experimental results. The generated monoenergetic high-energy electron beams are promising to upscale future accelerator systems and realize monoenergetic γ -ray sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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