Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

A. Maitrallain; E. Brunetti; M. J.V. Streeter; B. Kettle; R. Spesyvtsev; G. Vieux; M. Shahzad; B. Ersfeld; S. R. Yoffe; A. Kornaszewski; O. Finlay; Y. Ma; F. Albert; N. Bourgeois; S. J.D. Dann; N. Lemos; S. Cipiccia; J. M. Cole; I. G. González; L. Willingale; A. Higginbotham; A. E. Hussein; M. Šmid; K. Falk; K. Krushelnick; N. C. Lopes; E. Gerstmayr; C. Lumsdon; O. Lundh; S. P.D. Mangles; Z. Najmudin; P. P. Rajeev; D. R. Symes; A. G.R. Thomas; D. A. Jaroszynski

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Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

A. Maitrallain^*, E. Brunetti, M. J.V. Streeter, B. Kettle, R. Spesyvtsev, G. Vieux, M. Shahzad, B. Ersfeld, S. R. Yoffe, A. Kornaszewski, O. Finlay, Y. Ma, F. Albert, N. Bourgeois, S. J.D. Dann, N. Lemos, S. Cipiccia, J. M. Cole, I. G. González, L. WillingaleA. Higginbotham, A. E. Hussein, M. Šmid, K. Falk, K. Krushelnick, N. C. Lopes, E. Gerstmayr, C. Lumsdon, O. Lundh, S. P.D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, P. P. Rajeev, D. R. Symes, A. G.R. Thomas, D. A. Jaroszynski

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Laser wakefield accelerators commonly produce on-axis, low-divergence, high-energy electron beams. However, a high charge, annular shaped beam can be trapped outside the bubble and accelerated to high energies. Here we present a parametric study on the production of low-energy-spread, ultra-relativistic electron ring beams in a two-stage gas cell. Ring-shaped beams with energies higher than 750 MeV are observed simultaneously with on axis, continuously injected electrons. Often multiple ring shaped beams with different energies are produced and parametric studies to control the generation and properties of these structures were conducted. Particle tracking and particle-in-cell simulations are used to determine properties of these beams and investigate how they are formed and trapped outside the bubble by the wake produced by on-axis injected electrons. These unusual femtosecond duration, high-charge, high-energy, ring electron beams may find use in beam driven plasma wakefield accelerators and radiation sources.

Original language	English
Article number	013017
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3efd
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2022

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Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank UK EPSRC (EP/J018171/1, EP/J500094/1, EP/N028694/1), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 871124 Laserlab-Europe, EuPRAXIA (653782) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (Cockcroft Institute, ST/G008248/1, ST/P002056) for their support. The author acknowledge the funding from the ST/P000835/1 (John Adams Institute), and the United States Department of Energy Grant No. DE-NA0002372. This work was partially supported by EuCARD-2 (Grant No. 312453), the extreme light infrastructure (ELI) European Project, and by FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, 15/17 Ministerio da Ciencia e Ensino Superior, Portugal under the Contract POCI/FIS/59574/2004 and by the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the Contract DE-AC52- 07NA27344, as well as Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, and DOE Early Career Research Prog. SCW1575/1. LLNL-JRNL-742178.

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank UK EPSRC (EP/J018171/1, EP/J500094/1, EP/N028694/1), the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 871124 Laserlab-Europe, EuPRAXIA (653782) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (Cockcroft Institute, ST/G008248/1, ST/P002056) for their support. The author acknowledge the funding from the ST/P000835/1 (John Adams Institute), and the United States Department of Energy Grant No. DE-NA0002372. This work was partially supported by EuCARD-2 (Grant No. 312453), the extreme light infrastructure (ELI) European Project, and by FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, 15/17 Ministerio da Ciencia e Ensino Superior, Portugal under the Contract POCI/FIS/59574/2004 and by the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the Contract DE-AC52- 07NA27344, as well as Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, and DOE Early Career Research Prog. SCW1575/1. LLNL-JRNL-742178.

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annular electron beams
laser-plasma wakefield accelerators
parametric study

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Maitrallain, A., Brunetti, E., Streeter, M. J. V., Kettle, B., Spesyvtsev, R., Vieux, G., Shahzad, M., Ersfeld, B., Yoffe, S. R., Kornaszewski, A., Finlay, O., Ma, Y., Albert, F., Bourgeois, N., Dann, S. J. D., Lemos, N., Cipiccia, S., Cole, J. M., González, I. G., ... Jaroszynski, D. A. (2022). Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator. New Journal of Physics, 24(1), [013017]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3efd

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Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

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