Laser-Driven and E-Beam Driven Plasma Accelerators

This paper is a research on the interaction between intense particle beams and lasers with plasmas. Interestingly, the focused intensity (or energy density) of the state-of-the-art particle beams and lasers are both ~10
²¹
W/cm
²
. At these intensities the space charge fields or the beam and the fields of the laser are large enough to rapidly accelerate plasma electrons to relativistic energies and are high enough to tunnel ionize a gas. It is also fundamental to the field of plasma-based accelerators