Energy doubling of 42 GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7129, 2007, Pages 741-744

  Blumenfeld, Ian ^a   Clayton, Christopher E ^b   Decker, Franz Josef ^a   Hogan, Mark J ^a   Huang, Chengkun ^b   Ischebeck, Rasmus ^a   Iverson, Richard ^a   Joshi, Chandrashekhar ^b   Katsouleas, Thomas ^c   Kirby, Neil ^a   Lu, Wei ^b   Marsh, Kenneth A ^b   Mori, Warren B ^b   Muggli, Patric ^c   Oz, Erdem ^c   Siemann, Robert H ^a   Walz, Dieter ^a   Zhou, Miaomiao ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; PHYSICS; PLASMA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 33847135613     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05538     Document Type: Article

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