Giulietti, Danilo (2011) The physics of the laser-plasma accelerators: Challenges and limits. Il nuovo cimento C, 34 (4). pp. 87-92. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
To meet the challenge of future accelerators based on the laserplasma techniques new experimental schemes have to be investigated and a strategy on the laser technology to get ultra-high peak power as well as very high average power formulated. Top-level laser requirements for potential laser-based accelerator applications will be needed and the major limits to the electron energy gain have to be overcome, including laser pulse diffraction, electron dephasing and laser pulse energy depletion. A viable alternative to the multi-stage acceleration scheme could be a greater control of the laser pulse evolution in the underdense plasma that could inhibit filamentation and other detrimental instabilities as Raman and self-phase modulation enabling the full exploitation of the laser guiding over several Rayleigh lengths. A brief overview will be given of those aspects of laser plasma acceleration leading to a completely new generation of compact sources of energetic particles. In particular, a simplified introduction to the field of electron laser wakefield acceleration will be first given and some recent experiments reported.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Laser-plasma interactions ; Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2020 15:55 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2020 15:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/17314 |
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