Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator

Ultrafast pump-probe experiments open the possibility to track fundamental material behaviour like changes in its electronic configuration in real time. To date, most of these experiments are performed using an electron or a high-energy photon beam, which is synchronized to an infrared laser pulse....

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-03
Main Authors: Wenz, J, Khrennikov, K, Döpp, A, Gilljohann, M, Ding, H, Goetzfried, J, Schindler, S, Buck, A, J Xu, Heigoldt, M, Helml, W, Veisz, L, Karsch, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accelerators
Complex systems
Electron accelerators
Electron beams
Electrons
Experimentation
Femtosecond pulses
Harmonic generations
Laser beams
Lasers
Light sources
Synchrotron radiation
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Summary:Ultrafast pump-probe experiments open the possibility to track fundamental material behaviour like changes in its electronic configuration in real time. To date, most of these experiments are performed using an electron or a high-energy photon beam, which is synchronized to an infrared laser pulse. Entirely new opportunities can be explored if not only a single, but multiple synchronized, ultra-short, high-energy beams are used. However, this requires advanced radiation sources that are capable of producing dual-energy electron beams, for example. Here, we demonstrate simultaneous generation of twin-electron beams from a single compact laser wakefield accelerator. The energy of each beam can be individually adjusted over a wide range and our analysis shows that the bunch lengths and their delay inherently amount to femtoseconds. Our proof-of-concept results demonstrate an elegant way to perform multi-beam experiments in future on a laboratory scale.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1804.05931