@inproceedings{fa3f59fa30ba457da71bf88a8e66e80a,
title = "Laser wakefield acceleration of electron bunches in the mildly nonlinear regime",
abstract = "The possibility of accelerating electrons to the GeV level using a Petawatt laser focused in a uniform plasma is investigated. The proposed scheme relies on the wakefield acceleration of an electron bunch from a state-of-the-art radio frequency accelerator. Using an analytical model as well as numerical simulations performed withWAKE, an study of the injector parameters is carried out. In particular, it is found that the quality of the accelerated electron bunch -in terms of bunch length and energy spread- depends crucially on the injection energy. Injection energies of a few MeV lead to a GeV electron beam with sub-100 fs bunches and 10\% energy spreads. Most of the features of the acceleration process can be explained with the analytical linear model, whom results are in good agreement with the numerical simulations.",
author = "Lifschitz, \{A. F.\} and V. Malka and J. Faure and P. Mora",
year = "2005",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781622763320",
series = "32nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2005, EPS 2005, Held with the 8th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets - Europhysics Conference Abstracts",
pages = "1342--1345",
booktitle = "32nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2005, EPS 2005, Held with the 8th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets - Europhysics Conference Abstracts",
note = "32nd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion combined with the 8th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets ; Conference date: 27-06-2005 Through 01-07-2005",
}