V. Yu. Bychenkov, M. G. Lobok, “Electron acceleration in the regime of relativistic self-trapping of extreme light”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2023, Volume 53, Number 2,Pages <nobr>170

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Particle acceleration

Electron acceleration in the regime of relativistic self-trapping of extreme light

V. Yu. Bychenkov^abc, M. G. Lobok^abc

^a P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics named after N L Dukhov, Moscow
^c Federal Research Center The Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

Abstract: We demonstrate the possibility of using an XCELS laser pulse propagating in a plasma of near-critical density in the regime of relativistic self-trapping to accelerate a large number of electrons with an energy of about 0.2 – 2 GeV with a record charge, almost up to 0.1 μC. An even greater charge is concentrated in electrons with an energy of ∼100 MeV. This opens up new prospects for using such electron bunches to produce ultra-high-brightness sources of gamma radiation and to obtain a high yield of products of photonuclear reactions and nuclear cascades.

Keywords: relativistic self-trapping, electron acceleration, particle-in-cell method.

Received: 30.11.2022
Accepted: 30.11.2022