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@unpublished{hegelich:linac2022-we1aa04,
author = {B.M. Hegelich},
title = {{Nanoparticle Assisted Laser-Wakefield Acceleration of Electron Beams to 10 Gev at the Texas Petawatt Laser}},
booktitle = {Proc. LINAC'22},
language = {english},
intype = {presented at the},
series = {International Linear Accelerator Conference},
number = {31},
venue = {Liverpool, UK},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {09},
year = {2022},
note = {presented at LINAC'22 in Liverpool, UK, unpublished},
abstract = {{We report peak electron energies beyond 10 GeV from a proof-of-principle experiment of laser wakefield electron acceleration with a Petawatt-class laser in a 10 cm long gas cell filled with helium mixed with aluminum nanoparticles. Compared with other wakefield acceleration schemes, our scheme is straightforward since it requires only a gas cell and a source of nanoparticles for electron injection. No external guiding or heating mechanisms are employed. The nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield acceleration can control all the electron beam parameters: charge, energy spread, energy, emittance, and the number of bunches in the beam. Bunch charges are on the order of a few nanocoulomb for the whole beam and in the 100pC range in the high energy part, an order of magnitude increase over previous results at >5 GeV. We demonstrate shots with percent-level narrow energy spread at multi-GeV energies as well as varying numbers of electron bunches. This new method therefore shows great potential to support the further development of laser-plasma-based electron acceleration.}},
}