https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02151-9
Regular Article
Laser electron acceleration beyond 100 GeV
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
a e-mail: naka115@dia-net.ne.jp
Received: 13 March 2014
Revised: 24 March 2014
Published online: 4 June 2014
Nowadays there is great progress on laser-driven plasma-based accelerators by exploiting petawatt-class lasers, where for one aspect electron beams can be accelerated to multi-GeV energy in a centimeter-scale plasma due to laser wakefield acceleration mechanism. While to date, worldwide researches on laser-plasma accelerators are focused to create compact particle and radiation sources for applications in a wide range of sciences, including basic, medical and industrial sciences, there are great interests in applications for high energy physics and astrophysics that explore unprecedented high-energy frontier phenomena, for which laser plasma accelerator concepts provide us with promising tools. Here, our endeavors toward “extreme light” in the IZEST are envisaged for the next 30 years perspective and issues on laser plasma electron acceleration beyond 100 GeV and furthermore toward the TeV regime, aiming at high energy physics applications.
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