Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields

  • M. Bailly-Grandvaux,
  • J. J. Santos,
  • C. Bellei,
  • P. Forestier-Colleoni,
  • S. Fujioka,
  • L. Giuffrida,
  • J. J. Honrubia,
  • D. Batani,
  • R. Bouillaud,
  • M. Chevrot,
  • J. E. Cross,
  • R. Crowston,
  • S. Dorard,
  • J.-L. Dubois,
  • M. Ehret,
  • G. Gregori,
  • S. Hulin,
  • S. Kojima,
  • E. Loyez,
  • J.-R. Marquès,
  • A. Morace,
  • Ph. Nicolaï,
  • M. Roth,
  • S. Sakata,
  • G. Schaumann,
  • F. Serres,
  • J. Servel,
  • V. T. Tikhonchuk,
  • N. Woolsey,
  • Z. Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02641-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient energy transport by laser-driven relativistic electron beams is crucial in many applications including inertial confinement fusion, and particle acceleration. Here the authors demonstrate relativistic electron beam guiding in dense plasma with an externally imposed high magnetic field.