Narrow spread electron beams from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7359, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wiggins, S M ^a   Anania, M P ^a   Brunetti, E ^a   Cipiccia, S ^a   Ersfeld, B ^a   Islam, M R ^a   Issac, R C ^a   Raj, G ^a   Shanks, R P ^a   Vieux, G ^a   Welsh, G H ^a   Gillespie, W A ^a,b   MacLeod, A M ^a,c   Jaroszynski, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy spread; Laser plasma interaction; Relativistic electron beams; Wakefield acceleration

Indexed keywords

BEAM LINES; ELECTRON BUNCH; ELECTRON ENERGY SPECTRUM; ENERGY SPREAD; GAS JET; HIGH PEAK POWER; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-ENERGY ACCELERATOR; INCOHERENT RADIATIONS; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; LASER PLASMA; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MONOENERGETIC; NOZZLE LENGTH; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RELATIVE ENERGIES; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON BEAMS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SPHERICAL MIRROR; UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE; WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON OPTICS; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER FUSION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MIRRORS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA WAVES; PULSE GENERATORS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEMETERS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 69949137640     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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