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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215004 (2008) [4 pages]

Plasma-Density-Gradient Injection of Low Absolute-Momentum-Spread Electron Bunches

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C. G. R. Geddes,¹ K. Nakamura,¹ G. R. Plateau,¹ Cs. Toth,¹ E. Cormier-Michel,¹ E. Esarey,¹ C. B. Schroeder,¹ J. R. Cary,² and W. P. Leemans¹
¹Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
²Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Ave. Ste. A, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA

Received 3 July 2007; published 30 May 2008

Plasmadensity gradients in a gas jet were used to controlthe wake phase velocity and trapping threshold in a laserwakefield accelerator, producing stable electron bunches with longitudinal and transversemomentum spreads more than 10 times lower than in previousexperiments (0.17 and 0.02 MeV/c FWHM, respectively) and with central momentaof 0.76±0.02 MeV/c. Transition radiation measurements combined with simulations indicated thatthe bunches can be used as a wakefield accelerator injectorto produce stable beams with 0.2 MeV/c-class momentum spread at highenergies.

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URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.215004
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.215004
PACS:	52.38.Kd; 29.25.Bx; 41.75.Jv 52.38.Kd Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions 29.25.Bx Electron sources 41.75.Jv Laser-driven acceleration of charged-particle beams YEAR: 2008

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