Bulletin of the American Physical Society

59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 62, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 23–27, 2017; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Session Index

Session BO5: Laser-Plasma Acceleration	Show Abstracts
Chair: John Palastro, University of Rochester Room: 202AB

Monday, October 23, 2017 9:30AM - 9:42AM		BO5.00001: Direct Laser Acceleration in Laser Wakefield Accelerators J.L. Shaw, D.H. Froula, K.A. Marsh, C. Joshi, N. Lemos Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:42AM - 9:54AM		BO5.00002: Influence of plasma density on the generation of 100’s MeV electrons via Direct Laser Acceleration Amina Hussein, T. Batson, A.V. Arefiev, H. Chen, R.S. Craxton, A. Davies, D.H. Froula, D. Haberberger, O. Jansen, K. Krushelnick, P.M. Nilson, W. Theobald, T. Wang, G.J. Williams, L. Willingale Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:54AM - 10:06AM		BO5.00003: A detailed examination of the LWFA in the Self-Guided Nonlinear Blowout Regime for 15-100 Joule Lasers Asher Davidson, Adam Tableman, Peicheng Yu, Weiming An, Frank Tsung, Warren Mori, Wei Lu, Ricardo Fonseca Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:06AM - 10:18AM		BO5.00004: Optimization of electron beam properties from intense laser pulses interacting with structured gas jets Kelly Swanson, Hai-En Tsai, Sam Barber, Remi Lehe, Hann-Shin Mao, Sven Steinke, Jeroen van Tilborg, Kei Nakamura, Cameron Geddes, Carl Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:18AM - 10:30AM		BO5.00005: Control of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators by adjusting shock density profile Hai-En Tsai, Kelly K. Swanson, Remi Lehe, Sam K. Barber, Fumika Isono, Jorge G. Otero, Xinyao Liu, Hann-Shin Mao, Sven Steinke, Jeroen van Tilborg, Cameron G. R. Geddes, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:30AM - 10:42AM		BO5.00006: Measured emittance dependence on injection method in laser plasma accelerators SAMUEL BARBER, Jeroen van Tilborg, Carl Schroeder, Remi Lehe, Hai-En Tsai, Kelly Swanson, Sven Steinke, Kei Nakamura, Cameron Geddes, Carlo Benedetti, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:42AM - 10:54AM		BO5.00007: Generating high brightness electron beams using density down ramp injection in nonlinear plasma wakefields Thamine Dalichaouch, Xinlu Xu, Asher Davidson, Peicheng Yu, Weiming An, Chan Joshi, Chaojie Zhang, Warren Mori, Fei Li, Wei Lu, Ricardo Fonseca Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:54AM - 11:06AM		BO5.00008: Pulse Front Tilt and Laser Plasma Acceleration Daniel Mittelberger, Maxence Th\'{e}venet, Kei Nakamura, Remi Lehe, Anthony Gonsalves, Carlo Benedetti, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:06AM - 11:18AM		BO5.00009: Relativistic Electron Acceleration with Ultrashort Mid-IR Laser Pulses Linus Feder, Daniel Woodbury, Valentina Shumakova, Claudia Gollner, Bo Miao, Robert Schwartz, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Howard Milchberg Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:18AM - 11:30AM		BO5.00010: Enhancement of Laser Wakefields via a Backward Raman Amplifier Joshua Ludwig, Paul-Edouard Masson-Laborde, Wojciech Rozmus, Stefan Huller, Scott Wilks Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:30AM - 11:42AM		BO5.00011: Strong Optical Shock excitation in the mismatched regime of bubble plasma-wave based LWFA Aakash Sahai Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:42AM - 11:54AM		BO5.00012: Application of a laser-heater for advanced guiding of PetaWatt laser pulses in capillary plasmas Anthony Gonsalves, Joost Daniels, Carlo Benedetti, Hann-Shin Mao, Kei Nakamura, Christopher Pieronek, Carl Schroeder, Sven Steinke, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:54AM - 12:06PM		BO5.00013: Group Velocity Measurements in Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguides for Laser-Plasma Accelerators C.V. Pieronek, J. Daniels, A.J. Gonsalves, C. Benedetti, W.P. Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:06PM - 12:18PM		BO5.00014: On the Asymmetric Focusing of Low-Emittance Electron Bunches via Active Lensing by Using Capillary Discharges Stepan Bulanov, Gennadiy Bagdasarov, Nadezhda Bobrova, Alexey Boldarev, Olga Olkhovskaya, Pavel Sasorov, Vladimir Gasilov, Samuel Barber, Anthony Gonsalves, Carl Schroeder, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans, Tadzio Levato, Daniele Margarone, Georg Korn, Masaki Kando, Sergei Bulanov Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:18PM - 12:30PM		BO5.00015: \textgreater 1 Hz Renewable Films for Plasma Mirrors for High Repetition Rate Petawatt Class Laser Systems Anthony Zingale, Jordan Purcell, Patrick Poole, Ginevra Cochran, Christopher Willis, Douglass Schumacher Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 62, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 23–27, 2017; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Session Index

Session BO5: Laser-Plasma Acceleration

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