New Frontiers in Laser Acceleration: Applications and Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Physics General".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 253
Special Issue Editor
Interests: high-intensity laser plasma interactions with particular interest in acceleration of particles and generation of secondary photon sources; Particular attention devoted to applying these sources in healthcare and industry; alongside their use for fundamental physics studies; especially in high-field quantum electrodynamics and laboratory astrophysics
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Dear Colleagues,
Laser-driven particle accelerators have experienced tremendous development over the last few years, with clear potential to soon become a compact alternative to more conventional radiofrequency-based accelerators. The ability to sustain extremely high accelerating fields (easily exceeding the GV/m) allows for the acceleration of electrons up to GeV-like energies over only a few cm of plasma. Moreover, laser-driven accelerators have the unique capability of generating femtosecond-scale electron beams with source sizes in the micron range and divergences of the order of a mrad. These appealing characteristics are unveiling a whole new range of applications in healthcare, manufacturing, and fundamental science that would not be possible otherwise.
The present Special Issue will include articles reporting both concise reviews of recently obtained results and new findings produced in the area of laser-driven particle accelerators and their applications, either from an experimental or theoretical point of view. The topics are not limited strictly to laser-driven wakefield acceleration of electrons, but we will also consider other kinds of laser-driven particle accelerators, such as those from laser–solid interactions.
Dr. Gianluca Sarri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wakefield
- high-intensity lasers
- electron beams
- plasma physics
- optics
- particle acceleration
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