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Laser-Plasma Wakefield and Direct Laser Accelerators

ORAL · BO04 · ID: 18049

Presentations

  • High Energy, Relativistic Intensity Laser Channeling and Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons from an Underdense Plasma

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    Presenters

    • Hongmei Tang

      University of Michigan

    Authors

    • Hongmei Tang

      University of Michigan

    • Andrew McKelvey

      University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi., 48104, University of Michigan

    • Paul T Campbell

      University of Michigan

    • Brandon K Russell

      University of Michigan

    • Yong Ma

      University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

    • Alex V Arefiev

      University of California, San Diego

    • I-Lin Yeh

      University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego

    • Kavin Tangtartharakul

      University of California, San Diego

    • Hui Chen

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL

    • Felicie Albert

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

    • Jessica Shaw

      University of Rochester

    • Philip M Nilson

      Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, University of Rochester, Lab for Laser Energetics

    • Louise Willingale

      University of Michigan

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  • On the particle resonances and trapping of direct laser acceleration

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    Publication: F-Y Li, PK Singh, S Palaniyappan, and C-K Huang, Particle resonances and trapping of direct laser acceleration in a laser-plasma channel, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 24, 041301 (2021)

    Presenters

    • Feiyu Li

      New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Feiyu Li

      New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Prashant Singh

      Los Alamos National Lab

    • Sasi Palaniyappan

      Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Lab

    • Chengkun Huang

      Los Alamos National Lab

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  • Examination of the acceleration mechanisms for relativistic electron generation in an underdense, laser-driven plasma in the picosecond regime

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    Presenters

    • Kelly Swanson

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Kelly Swanson

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Graeme G Scott

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

    • Chris D Armstrong

      Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

    • Elizabeth S Grace

      Georgia Institute of Technology

    • Ghassan Zeraouli

      Colorado State University

    • Tammy Ma

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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  • Electron Radiography Based on Electron Beams from Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Acceleration

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    Presenters

    • Jessica Shaw

      University of Rochester

    Authors

    • Jessica Shaw

      University of Rochester

    • Gerrit Bruhaug

      University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

    • Matthew Freeman

      Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Frank Merrill

      Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos Natl Lab

    • Verena Geppert-Kleinrath

      Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Carl H Wilde

      Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Hans Rinderknecht

      University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics - Rochester, Lab for Laser Energetics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, University of Rochester

    • Dustin H Froula

      University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester, Lab for Laser Energetics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

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  • 15 MeV quasimonoenergetic electrons at 1 kHz with circularly polarized few-cycle pulses

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    Publication: F. Salehi, M. Le, L. Railing, M. Kolesik, and H. M. Milchberg, "Laser-Accelerated, Low-Divergence 15-MeV Quasimonoenergetic Electron Bunches at 1 kHz," Phys. Rev. X 11, 021055 (2021)<br>L. Railing, M. Le, F. Salehi, M. Kolesik, and H. M.<br>Milchberg, "Polarization Effect on Bandwidth Broadening in Hollow Core Fibers" (to be published).

    Presenters

    • Manh S Le

      University of Maryland, College Park

    Authors

    • Manh S Le

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Fatholah Salehi

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Lucas Railing

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Miroslav Kolesik

      University of Arizona, Tucson

    • Howard M Milchberg

      University of Maryland, College Park

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  • GeV Electron Acceleration by Self-waveguiding Pulses

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    Publication: [1] B. Miao, L. Feder, J. E. Shrock, A. Goffin, and H. M. Milchberg, Optical Guiding in Meter-Scale Plasma Waveguides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 074801 (2020).<br>[2] L. Feder, B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, A. Goffin, and H. M. Milchberg, Self-waveguiding of relativistic laser pulses in neutral gas channels, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043173 (2020).

    Presenters

    • Jaron E Shrock

      University of Maryland, College Park

    Authors

    • Jaron E Shrock

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Linus Feder

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Bo Miao

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Alexander Picksley

      Oxford University

    • Simon Hooker

      Oxford University

    • Shoujun Wang

      Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA

    • Reed C Hollinger

      Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA

    • Huanyu Song

      Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA

    • Ryan Nedbailo

      Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA

    • John Morrison

      Colorado State University

    • Jorge J Rocca

      Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521 USA

    • Howard M Milchberg

      University of Maryland, College Park

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  • A hundred TW dual laser system for compact laser plasma accelerators, laser driven photon sources, and HED experiments at BELLA Center

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    Presenters

    • Robert E Jacob

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Robert E Jacob

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Tobias M Ostermayr

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Hai-En Tsai

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Sahel Hakimi

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Liona Fan-Chiang

      University of California, Berkeley

    • Samuel Barber

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Fumika Isono

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jeroen van Tilborg

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Anthony J Gonsalves

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Kei Nakamura

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Csaba Toth

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Carl B Schroeder

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Cameron R Geddes

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Eric H Esarey

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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  • BELLA Petawatt Second Beamline Commissioning and Experimental Plans

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    Presenters

    • Marlene Turner

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Marlene Turner

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Anthony J Gonsalves

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Stepan S Bulanov

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Carlo Benedetti

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Davide Terzani

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jeroen van Tilborg

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Kei Nakamura

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Carl B Schroeder

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Zachary Eisentraut

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Cameron R Geddes

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Nathan Ybarrolaza

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Greg Mannino

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jonathan S Bradford

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Haris Muratagic

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Csaba Toth

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Lieselotte Obst-Huebl

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Tyler Sipla

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Arturo Magana

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Joe Riley

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Paul M Centeno

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Thorsten Stezelberger

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • James Vuong

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Lucas Kistulentz

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Gregory L'Heureux

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Gregory Scharfstein

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Eric H Esarey

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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  • Laser-plasma accelerator optimization through active stabilization of the 100-TW-class high-power laser delivery to focus

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    Publication: Isono, F., van Tilborg, J., Barber, S. K., Natal, J., Berger, C., Tsai, H. E., ... & Esarey, E. (2021). High-power non-perturbative laser delivery diagnostics at the final focus of 100-TW-class laser pulses. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 9.

    Presenters

    • Curtis Berger

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Curtis Berger

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Fumika Isono

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jeroen van Tilborg

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Samuel Barber

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Tobias M Ostermayr

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Carl B Schroeder

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Eric H Esarey

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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  • Staging of laser-based plasma accelerators using tape-based plasma mirrors

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    Presenters

    • Joshua Stackhouse

      University of California, Berkeley

    Authors

    • Joshua Stackhouse

      University of California, Berkeley

    • Anthony J Gonsalves

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Marlene Turner

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Lieselotte Obst-Huebl

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Kei Nakamura

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Matthew Sahim

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator

    • Carl B Schroeder

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jeroen van Tilborg

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Cameron R Geddes

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Eric H Esarey

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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  • Phase-space reconstruction of the electron beam via modulated angular spectrum of the electron beam in a laser wakefield accelerator

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    Presenters

    • Yong Ma

      University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

    Authors

    • Yong Ma

      University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

    • Matthew J. V Streeter

      Queen's University Belfast, The Queens University of Belfast, The Cockcroft Institute

    • Felicie Albert

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

    • Nicholas Bourgeois

      STFC Central Laser Facility, Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Lab

    • Silvia Cipiccia

      Diamond Light Source

    • Jason M Cole

      Imperial College London

    • Stephen J Dann

      STFC Central Laser Facility, Central Laser Facility, The Cockcroft Institute

    • Elias Gerstmayr

      Imperial College London

    • Isabel Gonzalez

      Lund University

    • Andrew Higginbotham

      University of York

    • Amina E Hussein

      University of Michigan

    • Dino Jaroszynski

      University of Strathclyde

    • Katerina Falk

      Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

    • Brendan Kettle

      Imperical College London, Imperial College London

    • Karl M Krushelnick

      University of Michigan, Center for Ultra-Fast Optics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

    • Nuno Lemos

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

    • Nelson Lopes

      Instituto Superior Técnico

    • Caroline Lumsden

      University of York

    • Olle Lundh

      Lund University

    • Stuart P.D. Mangles

      Imperial College London

    • Zulfikar Najmudin

      Imperial College London, Imperial College London, UK

    • Pattathil Rajeev

      Rutherford Appleton Lab, Central Laser Facility

    • Mohammed Shahzad

      University of Strathclyde

    • Michal Smid

      Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

    • Rome Spesyvtsev

      University of Strathclyde

    • Daniel R Symes

      Rutherford Appleton Lab

    • G. Vieux

      University of Strathclyde

    • Jonathan Wood

      Imperial College London

    • Alexander G Thomas

      University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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  • A multi-sheath model for highly nonlinear plasma wakefields

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    Publication: T. N. Dalichaouch et al., Phys. Plasmas 28, 063103 (2021).

    Presenters

    • Thamine Dalichaouch

      University of California, Los Angeles

    Authors

    • Thamine Dalichaouch

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Xinlu Xu

      SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab

    • Adam R Tableman

      California State University, Los Angeles

    • Fei Li

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Frank S Tsung

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Warren B Mori

      University of California, Los Angeles

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  • Laser Wakefield Acceleration from Nebular-Shaped Plasmas

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    Presenters

    • Itamar Cohen

      Tel Aviv University

    Authors

    • Itamar Cohen

      Tel Aviv University

    • Talia Meir

      Tel Aviv University

    • Yonatan Gershuni

      Tel Aviv University

    • Michal Elkind

      Tel Aviv University

    • Assaf Levanon

      Tel Aviv University

    • Ishay Pomerantz

      Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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  • Source size analysis of x-rays driven by laser wakefield acceleration

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    Presenters

    • Isabella M Pagano

      University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Isabella M Pagano

      University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Paul M King

      University of Texas at Austin/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Andrea Hannasch

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Thanh Ha

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Alejandro A Franco

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Hai-En Tsai

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Tobias M Ostermayr

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Robert E Jacob

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Sahel Hakimi

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Anthony J Gonsalves

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jeroen van Tilborg

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Carl B Schroeder

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Eric H Esarey

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Cameron R Geddes

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Mario Balcazar

      University of Michigan

    • Yong Ma

      University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

    • Alexander G Thomas

      University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

    • Carolyn C Kuranz

      University of Michigan

    • Hernan J Quevedo

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Michael M Spinks

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Constantin Aniculaesei

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Nuno Lemos

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

    • B M Hegelich

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Michael C Downer

      University of Texas at Austin

    • Felicie Albert

      Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

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