Plasma-Based Accelerators and Radiation Sources

Presentations

• Generation of 300 MeV Quasi-Monochromatic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield and Initiation of Photonuclear Reactions

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 7:30 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 7:42 AM

  Authors

  • A. Maksimchuk

    • University of Michigan

  • S. Reed

  • N. Naumova

  • V. Chvykov

  • B. Hou

  • G. Kalintchenko

  • P. Rousseau

  • G. Mourou

  • V. Yanovsky

    • FOCUS Center and Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan

  • J.R. Beene

  • D.R. Schultz

  • D.W. Stracener

  • C.R. Vane

    • Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• WITHDRAWN--Ponderomotive-based temperature sampling of relativistic electron beams

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 7:42 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 7:54 AM

  Authors

  • Anthony Valenzuela

  • A. Maksimchuk

    • University of Michigan

  • Rahul Shah

    • Laboratoire Optique Appliquee

  • Scott Sepke

    • University of Nebraska

  • Sudeep Banerjee

  • Donald Umstadter

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    • University of Michigan

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• Progress on a 1 GeV laser accelerator at the LOASIS Facility of LBNL

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 7:54 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 8:06 AM

  Authors

  • W.P. Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory
    • LBNL

  • B. Nagler

  • K. Nakamura

  • Cs. Toth

  • C.G.R. Geddes

  • J. van Tilborg

  • E.H. Esarey

  • C.B. Schroeder

    • LBNL

  • A. Gonsalves

  • S. Hooker

    • Oxford University

  • C. Filip

    • Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada

  • E. Michel

    • University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)
    • LBNL/UNR

  • T.E. Cowan

    • UNR

  • D. Bruhwiler

    • Tech-X

  • D. Dimitrov

  • J. Cary

    • Tech-X Corporation
    • Tech-X/U. Colorado

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• Warm wavebreaking of laser-driven plasma waves

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 8:06 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 8:18 AM

  Authors

  • C.B. Schroeder

  • E. Esarey

  • B.A. Shadwick

  • W.P. Leemans

    • LBNL and UNR
    • Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
    • LOASIS Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Improvement of electron beam quality in optical injection schemes using negative plasma density gradients

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 8:18 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 8:30 AM

  Authors

  • Gwenael Fubiani

  • E. Esarey

  • Carl Schroeder

  • W.P. Leemans

    • LBNL and UNR
    • Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
    • LOASIS Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• High-fidelity Simulations of Laser Pulses in long Plasma Channels

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 8:30 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 8:42 AM

  Authors

  • D. Bruhwiler

  • P. Messmer

  • J. Cary

  • C. Nieter

  • D. Dimitrov

    • Tech-X Corp.

  • E. Esarey

  • W. Leemans

  • C. Geddes

    • LBNL

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• Beam dynamics in plasma-based accelerators including the effects of betatron radiation

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 8:42 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 8:54 AM

  Authors

  • Pierre Michel

  • C.B. Schroeder

  • B.A. Shadwick

  • E. Esarey

  • W.P. Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory
    • LBNL

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• Laser driven ion channel x-ray laser.

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 8:54 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 9:06 AM

  Authors

  • C.S. Liu

    • National Central University, Taiwan

  • Vipin Tripathi

    • Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

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• Optical Probing of Magnetic Fields in a Self-Injected Laser Wakefield Accelerator

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 9:06 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 9:18 AM

  Authors

  • M. Kaluza

  • S.P.D. Mangles

  • A.G.R. Thomas

  • C.D. Murphy

  • Z. Najmudin

  • A.E. Dangor

  • K. Krushelnick

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK

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• THz generation by ultra-short laser pulses propagating in nonuniform plasma channels

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 9:18 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 9:30 AM

  Authors

  • T.M. Antonsen

  • J. Palastro

    • IREAP, University of Maryland

  • J. Cooley

    • Los Alamos Laboratory

  • A. York

  • S. Varma

  • H. Milchberg

    • IPST, University of Maryland

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• Photon acceleration by co-propagating plasma waves

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 9:30 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • Raoul Trines

  • C. Murphy

  • R. Bingham

    • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

  • J.T. Mendonca

  • L.O. Silva

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

  • A. Reitsma

    • Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK

  • P. Norreys

    • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

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• Acceleration of overdense plasmas using colliding laser pulses

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 9:42 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • Edison Liang

    • Rice Univ.

  • Koichi Noguchi

    • Rice University

  • Scott C. Wilks

    • LLNL

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• Collimated Multi-MeV Ion Beams in the Forward Direction from High-Intensity Laser Interactions With Underdense Plasma

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 9:54 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • L. Willingale

  • S.P.D. Mangles

  • P.M. Nilson

  • Z. Najmudin

  • A.G.R. Thomas

  • M.C. Kaluza

  • M.S. Wei

  • C. Kamberides

  • S.R. Nagel

  • A.E. Dangor

  • K. Krushelnick

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ United Kingdom

  • R.J. Clarke

  • K.L. Lancaster

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom

  • S. Karsch

  • J. Schreiber

    • Max-Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany

  • Warren Mori

    • UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A.
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

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• Control of electron cloud in laser foil interaction and suppression of proton beam divergence

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 10:06 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • Shigeo Kawata

    • Graduate School of Eng., Utsunomiya Univ., Japan

  • Ryo Sonobe

  • Shuji Miyazaki

  • Masaki Nakamura

  • Takashi Kikuchi

    • Graduate School of Eng., Utsunomiya University
    • Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University

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• Progress on neutralized drift compression experiment (NDCX-Ia) for high intensity ion beam

  ORAL

  Oct. 26, 2005, 10:18 AM – Oct. 26, 2005, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • P. Roy

  • S. Yu

  • E. Henestroza

  • W. Waldron

  • F. Bieniosek

  • S. Eylon

  • J. Coleman

  • A. Anders

  • M. Leitner

  • W. Greenway

  • D. Baca

  • D. Vanecek

  • G. Logan

    • LBNL, Berkeley, CA-94720, USA

  • D. Welch

  • D. Rose

  • C. Thoma

    • MRC, Albuquerque, NM 87110

  • R. Davidson

  • P. Efthimion

  • I. Kaganovich

  • E. Gilson

  • A. Sefkow

    • PPPL, NJ 08543

  • W. Sharp

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550

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