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Controlled Generation Of Comb-Like Electron Beams In Plasma Channels For Polychromatic Inverse Thomson Gamma-Ray Sources, Serge Y. Kalmykov, X. Davoine, I Ghebregziabher, R Lehe, A F. Lifschitz, B A. Shadwick
Controlled Generation Of Comb-Like Electron Beams In Plasma Channels For Polychromatic Inverse Thomson Gamma-Ray Sources, Serge Y. Kalmykov, X. Davoine, I Ghebregziabher, R Lehe, A F. Lifschitz, B A. Shadwick
Serge Youri Kalmykov
Propagating a relativistically intense, negatively chirped laser pulse (the bandwidth > 150 nm) in a plasma channel makes it possible to generate background-free, comb-like electron beams - sequences of synchronized bunches with a low phase-space volume and controlled energy spacing. The tail of the pulse, confined in the accelerator cavity (an electron density ‘bubble’), experiences periodic focusing, while the head, which is the most intense portion of the pulse, steadily self-guides. Oscillations of the cavity size cause periodic injection of electrons from the ambient plasma, creating an electron energy comb with the number of components, their mean energy, and energy …