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Volume 113, Number 3, February 2016
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| Article Number | 34002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/113/34002 | |
| Published online | 24 February 2016 | |
Effect of halo on the stability of electron bunches in laser wakefield acceleration
1 Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University - 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
2 CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency - 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
3 Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University - 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
4 Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University - 2-8 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Received: 22 October 2015
Accepted: 5 February 2016
The stability of short electron bunches formed and accelerated by laser wakefield in gas jets strongly depends on parameters of pre-plasma due to poor pulse focus-ability. Instabilities provoked by light energy remained out of focus spots (halo), usually 30–50%, are shown to result in broad and spotted transverse distributions of electrons in uniform gas jets radiated by high-contrast laser pulses. Shaped pre-plasma may drastically improve pulse focus-ability with stable, well-pointed, and well-collimated electron bunches.
PACS: 41.75.Jv – Laser-driven acceleration / 52.38.Kd – Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions
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