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| TPAE005 | Generation of Small Energy Spread Electron Beam from Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator | 976 |
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Funding: The authors are grateful for financial support from the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology through the Creative ResearchInitiatives Program. Laser and plasma based accelerators have been studied for a next generation particle accelerator. Still, there are some problems to solve for real applications. For example, it has been observed that the accelerated electron beam from laser and plasma based accelerators has a 100% energy spread. Thus, the generation of small energy spread beam is an important issue in the laser and plasma based accelerator study. In this work, we introduce a method to control the energy spread. From a basic theory and simulation, it is found that the transverse electron distribution is changed from the Gaussian to a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and low energy electrons spread out more rapidly than high energy electrons as they propagate in vacuum. Thus, a small size collimator is installed to remove the small energy electrons and it is conformed that the small energy spread can be obtained from an experiment. |
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| TPAE053 | Near-GeV Electron Beams from the Laser Wakefield Accelerator in the “Bubble” Regime | |
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Funding: This research was funded by the Korean Ministry Science and Technology through the Creative Research Initiative (CRI) Program. This Communication describes a 2D-PIC simulation of a laser wakefield accelerator in which an ultrashort, petawatt-class laser is focused and propagated through an underdense preformed plasma. We are looking at the phase-spaces of a large number of background plasma electrons that are accelerated to very high energies by the laser-induced plasma bubble. The result shows the possibility of generating a GeV-level electron beam in a few millimeters plasma size. As a future work, we will use a 500 TW laser system, that is under construction at APRI-GIST in Korea, for laser-plasma based accelerator researches to which the current simulation is relevant. |
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| TPAE055 | Laser-Based Electron Acceleration Experiment in KERI/APRI-GIST | |
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| Laser-based acceleration of charged particles has been of interest since laser wakefield produces very strong longitudinal electrical field to accelerate electrons upto relativistic energy. Recently, 20TW Ti:sapphire laser system, with pulse width of 30 fs and energy pf 600 mJ, was installed in APRI-GIST. The laser pulse is focused onto a gas jet to produce plasma and accelerate electrons in the scheme of self-modulated laser wakefield acceleration. Details of laser system and diagnostic results of electron beam will be discussed |