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Accelerating and guiding of electron beams in a cone target filled with near-critical-density plasmas |
| Jie-Jie Lan(蓝婕婕), Zhang-Hu Hu(胡章虎)†, and You-Nian Wang(王友年) |
| School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China |
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Abstract Direct laser acceleration is one of the mechanisms for producing electron bunches carrying up to μC charge, which has attracted much attention in recent decades. Currently, one major challenge for its applications to high-flux x-ray beams and Compton γ-ray sources is the relatively large divergence angle (hundreds of mrad). In this work, a scheme to guide and focus the incident laser and the accelerated electrons is proposed and tested through two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The scheme is based on a hollow cone target (made of aluminum or gold) filled with near-critical-density (NCD) plasmas (pre-ionized polymer foams). Instead of separating the acceleration and focusing processes, it is convenient to simultaneously realize both requirements in such an NCD plasma-filled cone target. PIC simulations reveal that the laser, electrons, and emitted photons can be well-guided along the cone axis in the NCD plasma-filled cone target, preserving the characteristic of high beam charge. Detailed PIC simulations are also performed to show the dependence of the electron energy and charge on the plasma density for a given laser.
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Received: 29 April 2025
Revised: 19 June 2025
Accepted manuscript online: 01 July 2025
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PACS:
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52.38.-r
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(Laser-plasma interactions)
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52.38.Kd
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(Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions)
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52.38.Hb
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(Self-focussing, channeling, and filamentation in plasmas)
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52.40.Fd
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(Plasma interactions with antennas; plasma-filled waveguides)
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| Fund: Project supported by the Fund of the National Key Laboratory of Plasma Physics (Grant No. 6142A04230204) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12075046). |
Corresponding Authors:
Zhang-Hu Hu
E-mail: zhanghu@dlut.edu.cn
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Cite this article:
Jie-Jie Lan(蓝婕婕), Zhang-Hu Hu(胡章虎), and You-Nian Wang(王友年) Accelerating and guiding of electron beams in a cone target filled with near-critical-density plasmas 2025 Chin. Phys. B 34 125201
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