Speaker
Dr
Rob Shalloo
(DESY)
Description
We propose a novel scheme for controlling the injection of a high-quality electron bunch into a channel-guided laser plasma accelerator. The all-optical plasma density tailoring technique allows for the generation of a tunable controlled injection structure natively within a plasma waveguide, a key requirement for efficient single-stage acceleration of multi-GeV beams of high quality. We describe a simple optical setup to form the structure and present proof-of-concept simulations showing the acceleration of a GeV electron beam with 18 pC of charge and less than 1 % energy spread using 1 J of drive laser energy.
| Working group | WG1 : Laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration |
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Primary authors
Dr
Rob Shalloo
(DESY)
Dr
Angel Ferran Pousa
(DESY)
Mathis Mewes
(DESY)
Dr
Soeren Jalas
(DESY)
Dr
Manuel Kirchen
(DESY)
Prof.
Richard D'Arcy
(DESY)
Prof.
Jens Osterhoff
(DESY)
Dr
Kristjan Põder
(DESY)
Dr
Maxence Thévenet
(DESY)