Production of high-quality electron bunches by dephasing and beam loading in channeled and unchanneled laser plasma accelerators

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Geddes, C G R ^a,c   Toth Cs ^a   Van Tilborg, J ^a,d   Esarey, E ^a   Schroeder, C B ^a   Bruhwiler, D ^b   Nieter, C ^b   Cary, J ^b,e   Leemans, W P ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TECH X CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM LOADING; DEPHASING; ELECTRON BUNCHES; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); SELF-TRAPPING;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON TRAPS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IONIZATION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION;

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 20844452394     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1882352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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