LPA Simulation Video (VIDEO)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Caption

In this simulation of the laser-plasma acceleration process generated with the INF&RNO code, a laser driver (orange) propagates to the right through a plasma (blue), generating a plasma wave. The simulation window moves at the speed of light following the laser and the plasma wave, making them appear stationary. Laser-ionized electrons (yellow) are trapped and accelerated (yellow bunch) to energies of up to 10 GeV by the strong electromagnetic fields in the plasma, after a propagation distance of 30 cm.

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Carlo Benedetti/Berkeley Lab

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