PAC2013 - List of Authors (Mao, H.S.)

Paper	Title	Page
THYAA1	BELLA Laser and Operations	1097
	W. Leemans, J. Daniels, A. Deshmukh, A.J. Gonsalves, A. Magana, H.S. Mao, D.E. Mittelberger, K. Nakamura, J.R. Riley, D. L. Syversrud, C. Tóth, N. Ybarrolaza LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	Funding: This work was supported by the DOE, Office of High Energy Physics under contract DE-AC02-05CH11231. The BELLA Project was formally launched and funded in 2009 by the Department of Energy, Office of High Energy physics to develop a new laser facility for forefront experiments on laser plasma acceleration at LBNL. The laser specifications were determined by relying on previous experiments that showed GeV electron beams and simulations. The BELLA laser can operate at peak power levels on the order of a Petawatt with a record setting repetition rate of 1 Hz for such a class of laser. Experiments have started in early 2013 and are aimed at studying the interaction of intense laser pulses in both gas jet and capillary discharge based plasma sources with as goal to obtain multi-GeV beams from structures that are less than a meter in length.

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BELLA Laser and Operations

1097

W. Leemans, J. Daniels, A. Deshmukh, A.J. Gonsalves, A. Magana, H.S. Mao, D.E. Mittelberger, K. Nakamura, J.R. Riley, D. L. Syversrud, C. Tóth, N. Ybarrolaza
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

Funding: This work was supported by the DOE, Office of High Energy Physics under contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The BELLA Project was formally launched and funded in 2009 by the Department of Energy, Office of High Energy physics to develop a new laser facility for forefront experiments on laser plasma acceleration at LBNL. The laser specifications were determined by relying on previous experiments that showed GeV electron beams and simulations. The BELLA laser can operate at peak power levels on the order of a Petawatt with a record setting repetition rate of 1 Hz for such a class of laser. Experiments have started in early 2013 and are aimed at studying the interaction of intense laser pulses in both gas jet and capillary discharge based plasma sources with as goal to obtain multi-GeV beams from structures that are less than a meter in length.