Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

A Maitrallain; E Brunetti; M J V Streeter; B Kettle; R Spesyvtsev; G Vieux; M Shahzad; B Ersfeld; S R Yoffe; A Kornaszewski; O Finlay; Y Ma; F Albert; N Bourgeois; S J D Dann; N Lemos; S Cipiccia; J M Cole; I G González; L Willingale; A Higginbotham; A E Hussein; M Šmid; K Falk; K Krushelnick; N C Lopes; E Gerstmayr; C Lumsdon; O Lundh; S P D Mangles; Z Najmudin; P P Rageev; D R Symes; A G R Thomas; D A Jaroszynski

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac3efd

Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

A Maitrallain, E Brunetti, M J V Streeter, B Kettle, R Spesyvtsev, G Vieux, M Shahzad, B Ersfeld, S R Yoffe, A Kornaszewski, O Finlay, Y Ma, F Albert, N Bourgeois, S J D Dann, N Lemos, S Cipiccia, J M Cole, I G González, L WillingaleA Higginbotham, A E Hussein, M Šmid, K Falk, K Krushelnick, N C Lopes, E Gerstmayr, C Lumsdon, O Lundh, S P D Mangles, Z Najmudin, P P Rageev, D R Symes, A G R Thomas, D A Jaroszynski

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Laser wakefield accelerators commonly produce on-axis, low-divergence, high-energy electron beams. However, a high charge, annular shaped beam can be trapped outside the bubble and accelerated to high energies. Here we present a parametric study on the production of low-energy-spread, ultra-relativistic electron ring beams in a two-stage gas cell. Ring-shaped beams with energies higher than 750 MeV are observed simultaneously with on axis, continuously injected electrons. Often multiple ring shaped beams with different energies are produced and parametric studies to control the generation and properties of these structures were conducted. Particle tracking and particle-in-cell simulations are used to determine properties of these beams and investigate how they are formed and trapped outside the bubble by the wake produced by on-axis injected electrons. These unusual femtosecond duration, high-charge, high-energy, ring electron beams may find use in beam driven plasma wakefield accelerators and radiation sources.

Original language	English
Article number	013017
Number of pages	12
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	24
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3efd
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2022

Keywords

laser wakefield acceleration
high-energy electron beams
LWFA
plasma

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Jaroszynski, D. (Principal Investigator)
European Commission - Horizon Europe + H2020
1/12/19 → 30/11/24
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Lab in a bubble
Jaroszynski, D. (Principal Investigator), Boyd, M. (Co-investigator), Brunetti, E. (Co-investigator), Ersfeld, B. (Co-investigator), Hidding, B. (Co-investigator), McKenna, P. (Co-investigator), Noble, A. (Co-investigator), Sheng, Z.-M. (Co-investigator), Vieux, G. (Co-investigator), Welsh, G. H. (Co-investigator) & Wiggins, M. (Co-investigator)
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1/04/16 → 31/03/21
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Laserlab-Europe IV (H2020 INFRA IA)
Jaroszynski, D. (Principal Investigator), Hidding, B. (Co-investigator), McKenna, P. (Co-investigator) & Sheng, Z.-M. (Co-investigator)
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1/12/15 → 30/11/19
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Maitrallain, A., Brunetti, E., Streeter, M. J. V., Kettle, B., Spesyvtsev, R., Vieux, G., Shahzad, M., Ersfeld, B., Yoffe, S. R., Kornaszewski, A., Finlay, O., Ma, Y., Albert, F., Bourgeois, N., Dann, S. J. D., Lemos, N., Cipiccia, S., Cole, J. M., González, I. G., ... Jaroszynski, D. A. (2022). Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator. New Journal of Physics, 24(1), Article 013017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3efd

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Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

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