Laser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation Lecture Notes of the "Capri" Advanced Summer School /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gizzi, Leonida Antonio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Assmann, Ralph (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Koester, Petra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Giulietti, Antonio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics, 231
• Subjects: Atoms.; Physics.; Particle acceleration.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Gravitation.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Medical and Radiation Physics.; Plasma Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This volume presents a selection of articles based on inspiring lectures held at the "Capri" Advanced Summer School, an original event conceived and promoted by Leonida Antonio Gizzi and Ralph Assmann that focuses on novel schemes for plasma-based particle acceleration and radiation source...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• "Basics of Laser-Plasma Interaction: a Selection of Topics"
• "LWFA electrons: staged acceleration"
• "Fundamentals and Applications of Hybrid LWFA-PWFA"
• "Introduction to High Brightness Electron Beam Dynamics"
• "Ion acceleration: TNSA and beyond"
• "Ultrafast Plasma Imaging"
• "Simulation of particles through matter"
• "Lectures about intense lasers: amplification process"
• "Diagnostics of ultrafast and ultraintense laser pulses".