Gas cell density characterization for laser wakefield acceleration

Autor: Brigitte Cros, M. Bougeard, P. Lee, Gilles Maynard, P. Monot, S. Dobosz Dufrénoy, Antoine Maitrallain, T. L. Audet
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas (LPGP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (ex SPAM) (LIDyl), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas ( LPGP ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamique et Lasers (ex SPAM) ( LIDyl ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph]
FOS: Physical sciences
Electrons
Electron
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Acceleration
law
0103 physical sciences
Cell density
[ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph]
[ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph]
010306 general physics
Instrumentation
Plasma density
Physics
Laser wakefield
Injector
Laser
Physics - Plasma Physics
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph]
Characterization (materials science)
Computational physics
Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
Density distribution
Physics::Accelerator Physics
Physics - Accelerator Physics
Gas cell
Zdroj: Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A
3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Sep 2017, La Biodola, Italy. pp.383-386, ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2018.01.053⟩
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04234
Popis: International audience; In the design of laser plasma electron injectors for multi-stage laser driven wakefield accelerators, the control of plasma density is a key element to stabilize the acceleration process. A cell with variable parameters is used to confine the gas and tailor the density profile. The gas filling process was characterized both experimentally and by fluid simulations. Results show a good agreement between experiments and simulations. Simulations were also used to study the effect of each of the gas cell parameters on the density distribution and show the possibility to finely control the density profile.
Databáze: OpenAIRE