Low emittance, high brilliance relativistic electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMITTANCES; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR; LOW EMITTANCE; MONOENERGETIC; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON BEAM; UPPER LIMITS; WAKE FIELDS; X-RAY FEL;

ELECTRON BEAMS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 78649261407     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.215007     Document Type: Article

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