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Vol. 9, Issue 1, 014001 (2024)

The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator

Constantin Aniculaesei¹, Thanh Ha¹, Samuel Yoffe², Lance Labun^1,3..., Stephen Milton³, Edward McCary¹, Michael M. Spinks¹, Hernan J. Quevedo¹, Ou Z. Labun¹, Ritwik Sain¹, Andrea Hannasch¹, Rafal Zgadzaj¹, Isabella Pagano^1,4, Jose A. Franco-Altamirano¹, Martin L. Ringuette¹, Erhart Gaul¹, Scott V. Luedtke⁵, Ganesh Tiwari⁶, Bernhard Ersfeld², Enrico Brunetti², Hartmut Ruhl⁷, Todd Ditmire¹, Sandra Bruce¹, Michael E. Donovan³, Michael C. Downer¹, Dino A. Jaroszynski² and Bjorn Manuel Hegelich^1,3|Show fewer author(s)

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¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

²SUPA Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland G4 0NG, United Kingdom

³Tau Systems, Inc., Austin, Texas 78701, USA

⁴Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA

⁵Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

⁶Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

⁷Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

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Constantin Aniculaesei, Thanh Ha, Samuel Yoffe, Lance Labun, Stephen Milton, Edward McCary, Michael M. Spinks, Hernan J. Quevedo, Ou Z. Labun, Ritwik Sain, Andrea Hannasch, Rafal Zgadzaj, Isabella Pagano, Jose A. Franco-Altamirano, Martin L. Ringuette, Erhart Gaul, Scott V. Luedtke, Ganesh Tiwari, Bernhard Ersfeld, Enrico Brunetti, Hartmut Ruhl, Todd Ditmire, Sandra Bruce, Michael E. Donovan, Michael C. Downer, Dino A. Jaroszynski, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich. The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(1): 014001 Copy Citation Text

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Constantin Aniculaesei, Thanh Ha, Samuel Yoffe, Lance Labun, Stephen Milton, Edward McCary, Michael M. Spinks, Hernan J. Quevedo, Ou Z. Labun, Ritwik Sain, Andrea Hannasch, Rafal Zgadzaj, Isabella Pagano, Jose A. Franco-Altamirano, Martin L. Ringuette, Erhart Gaul, Scott V. Luedtke, Ganesh Tiwari, Bernhard Ersfeld, Enrico Brunetti, Hartmut Ruhl, Todd Ditmire, Sandra Bruce, Michael E. Donovan, Michael C. Downer, Dino A. Jaroszynski, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich. The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(1): 014001

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