Speaker
Daniele Palla
(PI)
Description
In the original paper, Tajima and Dawson (1979), suggest to use a wakefield generated by an intense laser pulse to accelerate relativistic electron. In the Laser Wakefield Accelerators (LWFA), the high longitudinal electric field supported by plasma waves accelerates trapped (self-injected) electrons to velocities close to wave phase velocity. With respect to the standard RF-linacs, the accelerating distances is 1000 times shorter.
A critical aspect of LWFA is the self-injection mechanism which can influence the shot-to-shot stability. We will report on a recent experimental study on self-injection aimed at the optimization of a LWFA used for radiobiology and secondary sources.We will also compare the experimental results at ILIL laboratory with a PIC simulation code; the Jasmine code.
Primary author
Daniele Palla
(PI)
Co-authors
Federica Baffigi
(INo CNR (Pisa))
Mr
Francesco Rossi
(INFN Bologna)
Leonida Antonio Gizzi
(PI)
Lorenzo Fulgentini
(INO CNR (Pisa))
Dr
Luca Labate
(Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Paolo Ferrara
(INO CNR (Pisa))
Pasquale Londrillo
(BO)
Petra Koester
(INO CNR (Pisa))
