Speaker
Andrea Macchi
(CNR, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, u.o.s Adriano Gozzini, Pisa, Italy)
Description
Twenty years after the celebrated "dream beam" experiments, laser wakefield acceleration has reached new milestones. For instance in 2024 electron energies up 10 GeV were reached in two different experiments, while other parameters of beam and source quality has been improved. Such progress has been achieved by either exploiting novel ideas or putting together already known concepts for key elements such as e.g. laser pulse guiding and electron injection. Support from laser driver development and from computational advances for laser-plasma simulation and data-driven optimization was also pivotal. This talk will briefly review recent experiments in the field with an outlook towards different applications.
Primary author
Andrea Macchi
(CNR, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, u.o.s Adriano Gozzini, Pisa, Italy)
