Published 1993 | Version v1
Report

Recent work on short pulse laser-plasma accelerators

  • 1. Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  • 2. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  • 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)

Description

Theory and simulation of short-pulse laser plasma accelerators is presented. The plasma beat wave and laser wakefield accelerators are examined for the parameters of recently developed high-brightness lasers. For typical parameters, energy gains of .3 to 1 GeV over a few centimeters length appear feasible with a short pulse beat wave design. Issues important for extending these designs to multi-GeV acceleration of beams with high beam quality are examined, including optical guiding of the lasers, non-linear laser and wake velocity shifts, and long-term stability of the laser pulses

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 1993 Particle Accelerator Conference: Volume 4
Imprint Pagination
738 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 2635-2637.
Report number
DOE/ER/40779--1-Vol.4

Conference

Title
international particle accelerator conference.
Acronym
PAC '93
Dates
17-20 May 1993.
Place
Washington, DC (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
26025108
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BEAT WAVE ACCELERATORS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DESIGN; WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; SIMULATION

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract FG03-92ER40745
Secondary number(s)
CONF-930511--Vol.4.