ON LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION IN PLASMA CHANNELS

Authors
ANDREEV NE CHIZHONKOV EV FROLOV AA GORBUNOV LM
Citation
Ne. Andreev et al., ON LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION IN PLASMA CHANNELS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 410(3), 1998, pp. 469-476
Citations number
25
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
469 - 476
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)410:3<469:OLWAIP>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The structure of the laser wakefield is analyzed for wide and narrow ( in comparison with plasma wavelength) plasma channels with parabolic i n radial direction plasma density distributions. The results of analyt ical theory are confirmed by the self-consistent nonlinear numerical m odeling of laser pulse propagation and wakefield generation. In narrow plasma channels the accelerating longitudinal component of the wakefi eld decreases rapidly with the distance from a laser pulse. This makes possible a short single electron bunch acceleration even if the injec ted electron beam is much longer than a plasma wavelength. (C) 1998 El sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.