THE LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION EXPERIMENT AT ECOLE-POLYTECHNIQUE

Authors
AMIRANOFF F BERNARD D CROS B DORCHIES F JACQUET F MALKA V MARQUES JR MATTHIEUSSENT G MINE P MODENA A MORILLO J NAJMUDIN Z
Citation
F. Amiranoff et al., THE LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION EXPERIMENT AT ECOLE-POLYTECHNIQUE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 410(3), 1998, pp. 364-366
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
410
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
364 - 366
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)410:3<364:TLWAEA>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A laser wakefield electron acceleration experiment has been set-up at Ecole Polytechnique. An electron beam with 3 MeV total energy is injec ted in a plasma wave generated by laser wakefield using the new LULI C PA laser (400 fs [FWHM], I < 10(17) W/cm(2)). The first results show a n effective acceleration of the order of 1 MeV, with a maximum when th e electron density is close to the optimum value for which the laser p ulse length is about half the plasma wavelength. (C) 1998 Elsevier Sci ence B.V. All rights reserved.