Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2011

Influence of a magnetic guide field on wakefield acceleration

Mathieu Drouin
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Alain Bourdier

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Enhancement of the trapping and optimization of the beam quality are two key issues of Laser Wake Field Acceleration (LWFA). The influence of stochastic acceleration on the trapping of electrons is compared to the one of cold injection. It is shown that when considering a high intensity wave perturbed by a low intensity counter-propagating wave, in the non-linear blowout regime, the influence of the colliding pulses polarizations (either parallel linear or positive circular) on the beam quality seems weak when the electron density is below $\sim 10^{-3}$ critical density. The effect of a homogenous constant magnetic field $B_0$, parallel to the direction of propagation of the pump pulse, is studied in the blowout regime. Transverse currents are generated at the rim of the bubble, which results in the amplification of the $B_0$ field at the rear of the bubble. Without $B_0$ field the beam periodically explodes and re-confines, this phenomenon is suppressed when $B_0$ reaches some threshold, which is a function of the laser pulses parameters (intensity, waist, duration). Therefore the dynamics of the beam is modified, its maximum energy is slightly boosted and above all transverse emittance reduced. Moreover the low energy tail, observed in the non magnetized case, can be completely suppressed leading to very sharp mono-energetic beam when $B_0$ is applied. If the available $B_0$ field is limited then one has to fine-tune the spatio-temporal shape and intensity of the colliding pulse in order to get an acute control on the beam quality.

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Est une version de hal-00395099 Preprint Mathieu Drouin, Laurent Gremillet, Jean-Claude Adam, Anne Héron. Particle-in-cell modelling of relativistic laser-plasma interaction with the adjustable damping, direct implicit method. 2009. ⟨hal-00395099⟩

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hal-00672771 , version 1 (22-02-2012)
hal-00672771 , version 2 (23-02-2012)

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Mathieu Drouin, Quentin Harry, Alain Bourdier. Influence of a magnetic guide field on wakefield acceleration. 2011. ⟨hal-00672771v2⟩

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