Ultrarelativistic electron beams accelerated by terawatt scalable kHz laser

Author
Lazzarini, C. M.
Grittani, G. M.
Valenta, P.
Zymak, I.
Antipenkov, R.
Chaulagain, U.
Goncalves, L. V. N.
Grenfell, A.
Lamač, Marcel
Lorenz, S.
Nevrkla, M.
Špaček, A.
Šobr, V.
Szuba, W.
Bakule, P.
Korn, G.
Bulanov, S. V.
Publication date
2024Published in
Physics of PlasmasVolume / Issue
31 (3)ISBN / ISSN
ISSN: 1070-664XISBN / ISSN
eISSN: 1089-7674Metadata
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This publication has a published version with DOI 10.1063/5.0189051
Abstract
We show the laser-driven acceleration of unprecedented, collimated (2 mrad divergence), and quasi-monoenergetic (25% energy spread) electron beams with energy up to 50 MeV at 1 kHz repetition rate. The laser driver is a multi-cycle ( 15 fs) 1 kHz optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system, operating at 26 mJ ( 1.7 TW). The scalability of the driver laser technology and the electron beams reported in this work pave the way toward developing high-brilliance x-ray sources for medical imaging and innovative devices for brain cancer treatment and represent a step toward the realization of a kHz GeV electron beamline.
Keywords
ultrarelativistic, electron beams, terawatt laser
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