Experiments on Laser and e-Beam Transport and Interaction in a Plasma Channel.

Pogorelsky, I. V. ; Pavlishin, I. V. ; Ben-Zvi, I. ; Yakimenko, V. ; Kumita, T. ; Kamiya, Y. ; Zigler, A.

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关键词: Accelerators;    Lasers;    Electron beams;    Linear accelerators;    Plasma;   

RP-ID  :  DE200415009932

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

An ablative capillary discharge is installed into a linac beamline and serves as a plasma source for generating and characterizing wakefields. Simultaneously, the electron beam is used as a tool for plasma diagnostics. A high-energy picosecond CO(sub 2) laser channeled within the same capillary strongly affects a counterpropagating electron beam. These observations, supported with simulations, suggest the possibility of manipulating relativistic electron beams by steep plasma channels ponderomotively produced by a laser.