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Article Dans Une Revue Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Année : 2014

Laser ionized preformed plasma at FACET

Sébastien Corde

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The Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests (FACET) at SLAC installed a 10-TW Ti : sapphire laser system for pre-ionized plasma wakefield acceleration experiments. High energy (500 mJ), short (50 fs) pulses of 800 nm laser light at 1 Hz are used at the FACET experimental area to produce a plasma column. The laser pulses are stretched to 250 fs before injection into a vapor cell, where the laser is focused by an axicon lens to form a plasma column that can be sustained over the desired radius and length. A 20 GeV electron bunch interacts with this preformed plasma to generate a non-linear wakefield, thus accelerating a trailing witness bunch with gradients on the order of several GV m^−1. The experimental setup and the methods for producing the pre-ionized plasma for plasma wakefield acceleration experiments performed at FACET are described.

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hal-01172496 , version 1 (07-07-2015)

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S Z Green, E Adli, C I Clarke, Sébastien Corde, S A Edstrom, et al.. Laser ionized preformed plasma at FACET. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2014, 56, pp.084011. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/56/8/084011⟩. ⟨hal-01172496⟩
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