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Electron Acceleration in the Relativistic Self-Trapping Regime of Extreme Light

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We demonstrate the possibility of using an XCELS [1] laser pulse propagating in a plasma of near-critical density in the regime of relativistic self-trapping to accelerate a large number of electrons with an energy of about 0.2 to 2 GeV with a record charge, almost up to 0.1 μC. An even greater charge is concentrated in electrons with an energy of ∼100 MeV. This opens up new prospects for using such electron bunches to produce ultra-high-brightness sources of gamma radiation and to obtain a high yield of products of photonuclear reactions and nuclear cascades.

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The work is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation under agreement no. 075-15-2021-1361 and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant RFFI-ROSATOM no. 20-21-00023.

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  1. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. Yu. Bychenkov & M. G. Lobok

  2. Dukhov Automatics Research Institute (VNIIA), Moscow, Russia

    V. Yu. Bychenkov & M. G. Lobok

  3. Federal Research Center The Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    V. Yu. Bychenkov & M. G. Lobok

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Bychenkov, V.Y., Lobok, M.G. Electron Acceleration in the Relativistic Self-Trapping Regime of Extreme Light. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 50 (Suppl 6), S706–S714 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335623180045

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