The team led by Wim Leemans, then head of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center and now Accelerator Director at DESY, presents the novel concept in the journal Physical Review Letters. A plasma is a gas in which the molecules have been stripped of their electrons, creating a mix of positively charged molecules and negatively charged electrons.

ELI Beamlines cooperated on preparation of this experiment with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Russia. “The results of the experiments and the extensive simulations about generating well prepared longer plasma guiding structures for high energy electron acceleration we will be using in our facility for the benefit of users to providing stable short pulse electron beams at repetition rates defined by the L3-HAPLS laser system,” says Georg Korn, the scientific director of ELI Beamlines.

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