Novel electron source based on interaction between high power laser and metal wire

Yin Jiapeng; Yuan Xiaohui; Zhou Zusheng; Pei Guoxi; Liu Shengguang

doi:10.11884/HPLPB202133.210244

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Yin Jiapeng, Yuan Xiaohui, Zhou Zusheng, et al. Novel electron source based on interaction between high power laser and metal wire[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2021, 33: 094003. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202133.210244

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Yin Jiapeng, Yuan Xiaohui, Zhou Zusheng, et al. Novel electron source based on interaction between high power laser and metal wire[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2021, 33: 094003. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202133.210244

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Novel electron source based on interaction between high power laser and metal wire

doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202133.210244

Yin Jiapeng^1
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Yuan Xiaohui¹,
Zhou Zusheng^{2, 3},
Pei Guoxi^{2, 3},
Liu Shengguang^{1
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1.
Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
2.
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
3.
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Funds: National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1832185)

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Yin Jiapeng, yinjiapeng@sjtu.edu.cn
Corresponding author: Liu Shengguang, liushg@sjtu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2021-06-18
Rev Recd Date: 2021-07-26

Available Online: 2021-09-04

Publish Date: 2021-09-15

Abstract

Abstract

Electron source generates electron bunch and dominates the electron beam quality for an accelerator. We put forward a novel mechanism of electron source in this paper. A great amount of hot electrons with several hundred keV can be generated during the interaction process between high power laser and metal wire, and some of them fly forward along the wire, guided by EM field. We generate electron beam and measure beam parameters downstream the Au wire, W wire and Cu wire experimentally. 3 nC electrons can be collected by a Faraday-cup for a single shot. Electron energy spectrum is between 0−240 keV continually, and there is a density peak at 100 keV. RF buncher cavity can be used to compress the bunch length short enough for further RF acceleration in main accelerator. Start-to-end simulation has been done with ASTRA code. Electron beam with 55 ps length and 1 nC charge is injected into a 2-cell RF buncher cavity, it can be compressed into 27 ps long, which satisfies the general requirement of the main accelerator on the electron source.
- electron beam,
- laser pulse,
- metal wire,
- bunch compression

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