| Title |
On the Development of a Low Peak-Power, High Repetition-Rate Laser Plasma Accelerator at IPEN |
| Authors |
- A. Bonatto
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- E.P. Maldonado
ITA, São José dos Campos, Brazil
- R.P. Nunes
UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- R.E. Samad, F.B.D. Tabacow, N.D. Vieira, A.V.F. Zuffi
IPEN-CNEN/SP, São Paulo, Brazil
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| Abstract |
In this work, the current status on the development of a laser plasma accelerator at the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (Instituto de Pesquisas Nucleares e Energéticas, IPEN/CNEN), in São Paulo, Brazil, is presented. Short pulses to be produced by an under-development near-TW, kHz laser system will be used to ionize a gas jet, with a density profile designed to optimize the self-injection of plasma electrons. The same laser pulse will also drive a plasma wakefield, which will allow for electron acceleration in the self-modulated regime. The current milestone is to develop the experimental setup, including electron beam and plasma diagnostics, required to produce electron bunches with energies of a few MeV. Once this has been achieved, the next milestone is to produce beams with energies higher than 50 MeV. Besides kickstarting the laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) technology in Brazil, this project aims to pave the way for conducting research on the production of radioisotopes by photonuclear reactions, triggered by LWFA-accelerated beams.
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| Funding |
FAPESP (Grant #2018/25961), CNPq and CAPES. |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
IPAC2021 |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (12th) |
| Location |
Campinas, SP, Brazil |
| Date |
24-28 May 2021 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Liu Lin (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); John M. Byrd (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Regis Neuenschwander (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Renan Picoreti (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Volker R. W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-214-1 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-5490 |
| Received |
18 May 2021 |
| Accepted |
15 June 2021 |
| Issue Date |
10 August 2021 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB141 |
| Pages |
1713-1716 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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