2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Lockhart, D.)

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WEOBS1	The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA): A 10 GeV Laser Plasma Accelerator	1416
	W. Leemans, R.M. Duarte, E. Esarey, D.S. Fournier, C.G.R. Geddes, D. Lockhart, C.B. Schroeder, C. Tóth, J.-L. Vay, S. Zimmermann LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	An overview is presented of the design of a 10 GeV laser plasma accelerator (LPA) that will be driven by a PW-class laser system and of the BELLA Project, under which the required Ti:sapphire laser system for the acceleration experiments is being installed. The basic design of the 10 GeV stage aims at operation in the quasi-linear regime, where the laser excited wakes are largely sinusoidal and allow acceleration of electrons and positrons. Simulations show that a 10 GeV electron beam can be generated in a meter scale plasma channel guided LPA operating at a density of about 10¹⁷ cm^-3 and powered by laser pulses containing 30-40 J of energy in a 50-200 fs duration pulse, focused to a spotsize of 50-100 micron. The lay-out of the facility and laser system will be presented as well as the progress on building the facility.

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The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA): A 10 GeV Laser Plasma Accelerator

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W. Leemans, R.M. Duarte, E. Esarey, D.S. Fournier, C.G.R. Geddes, D. Lockhart, C.B. Schroeder, C. Tóth, J.-L. Vay, S. Zimmermann
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

An overview is presented of the design of a 10 GeV laser plasma accelerator (LPA) that will be driven by a PW-class laser system and of the BELLA Project, under which the required Ti:sapphire laser system for the acceleration experiments is being installed. The basic design of the 10 GeV stage aims at operation in the quasi-linear regime, where the laser excited wakes are largely sinusoidal and allow acceleration of electrons and positrons. Simulations show that a 10 GeV electron beam can be generated in a meter scale plasma channel guided LPA operating at a density of about 10¹⁷ cm^-3 and powered by laser pulses containing 30-40 J of energy in a 50-200 fs duration pulse, focused to a spotsize of 50-100 micron. The lay-out of the facility and laser system will be presented as well as the progress on building the facility.