Influence of a Magnetic Guide Field on Injection in Wakefield Acceleration

Alain Bourdier, Sébastien Rassou, Guillaume Girard, Mathieu Drouin

CEA, DAM, DIF, Arpajon, France.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2012.39133                

Abstract

The influence of an external static field applied in the direction parallel to the direction of propagation of a high intensity driving laser pulse on the electron trapping in laser wakefield acceleration is explored.

Keywords

Laser Wakefield Acceleration; Magnetic Field; Electron Injection; Self-Trapping

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	A. Pukhov and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Laser Wake Field Acceleration: The Highly Non-Linear Broken-Wave Regime,” Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 74, No. 4-5, 2002, pp. 355-361. doi:10.1007/s003400200795
[2]	W. Lu, C. Huang, M. Zhou, W. B. Mori and T. Katsouleas, “Nonlinear Theory for Relativistic Plasma Wakefields in the Blowout Regime,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, No. 16, 2006, pp. 165002-1-165002-4. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.165002
[3]	A. I. Akhiezer and R. V. Polovin, “Theory of Wave Motion of an Electron Plasma,” Soviet Physics-JETP, Vol. 3, No. 5, 1956, pp. 696-705.
[4]	S. V. Bulanov, F. Pegoraro, A. M. Pukhov and A. S. Sakharov, “Transverse-Wake Wave Breaking,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 78, No. 22, 1997, pp. 4205-4208. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4205
[5]	M. S. Hur, D. N. Gupta and H. Suk, “Enhanced Electron Trapping by a Static Longitudinal Magnetic Field in Laser Wakefield Acceleration,” Physics Letters A, Vol. 372, No. 15, 2008, pp. 2684-2687. doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2007.12.045
[6]	I. Kostyukov, A. Pukhov and S. Kiselev, “Phenomenological Theory of Laser-Plasma Interaction in ‘Bubble’ Regime,” Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 11, No. 11, 2004, pp. 5256-5264. doi:10.1063/1.1799371
[7]	B.-S. Xie and H.-C. Wu, H. Y. Wang, N.-Y. Wang and M. Y. Yu, “Analysis of the Electromagnetic Fields and Electron Acceleration in the Bubble Regime of the Laser- Plasma Interaction,” Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 14, No. 7, 2007, pp. 073103-1-073103-8. doi:10.1063/1.2750648
[8]	I. Kostyukov, E. Nerush, A. Pukhov and S. Seredov, “Electron Self-Injection in Multidimensional Relativistic-Plasma Wake Fields,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 17, 2009, pp. 175003-1-175003-4. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.175003
[9]	I. Kostyukov, E. Nerush, A. Pukhov and V. Seredov, “A Multidimensional Theory for Electron Trapping by a Plasma Wake Generated in the Bubble Regime,” New Journal of Physics, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2010, pp. 045009-1-045009-23. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/045009
[10]	E. Lefebvre, et al., “Electron and Photon Production from Relativistic Laser—Plasma Interactions,” Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 43, No. 7, 2003, pp. 629-633. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/43/7/317