The Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) techniques, despite being a promising approach to high gradient acceleration, create a number of challenges from a point of view of beam transport and beam manipulation. At the same time the progress in PWFA experiments has opened a road for creation of a number of plasma based tools for beam manipulations. In this talk we will consider two of such...
In order to take advantage of the large acceleration gradients in laser plasma accelerators and achieve high beam energies, preformed plasma waveguides can be used to mitigate laser diffraction of focused laser pulses, which increases the acceleration length and the energy gain for a given laser power. Here we report on guiding of relativistically intense laser pulses with PW peak power over...
Performing high intensity laser-plasma interactions at high repetition rate (>1 Hz) allows for a fundamental change in the way these phenomena are explored. The large quantity of data collected allows for statistical modelling and fine scans of parameter space. In addition, multi-dimensional optimisation becomes possible, which is of great importance when individual parameters are coupled in a...
