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WEPLO05 | Developing Criteria for Laser Transverse Instability in LWFA Simulations | 855 |
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Funding: We acknowledge resources of NERSC facility, operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-5CH11231, and of SEAWULF at Stony Brook University as well as funding from SBU-BNL Seed Grants. Laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is considered as a potential technology for future colliders and light sources. To make the best use of a laser’s power, the laser is expected to maintain a stable propagation. A transverse instability is observed in our previous simulations when a long, intense CO2 laser propagates inside a plasma*. This unstable motion is accompanied by strong transverse diffraction of the laser power and results in the disruption of the ion channel typically used for radiation generation**. We investigated the hosing-like instability using the Particle-in-Cell code OSIRIS*** by modeling the laser portion where this instability is seeded and then evolves. In this proceeding, a criteria will be described that allows for the characterization of the temporal and spatial evolution of this instability. *J. Yan, et al. , AAC, IEEE, 2018. ** L. Nemos et al., PPCF, 58(3), 2016. ***R. A. Fonseca et al., Lecture Notes Computation Science (2331) 342, 2002. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEPLO05 | |
About • | paper received ※ 16 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 04 December 2019 issue date ※ 08 October 2019 | |
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