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

Description

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 sources, and which brings together researchers from the conventional accelerator community and from the high-intensity laser-matter interaction research fields. Training in these fields is highly relevant for ultra-intense lasers and applications, which have enjoyed dramatic growth following the development of major European infrastructures like the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) and the EuPRAXIA project. The articles preserve the tutorial character of the lectures and reflect the latest advances in their respective fields. The volume is mainly intended for PhD students and young researchers getting started in this area, but also for scientists from other fields who are interested in the latest developments. The content will also appeal to radiobiologists and medical physicists, as it includes contributions on potential applications of laser-based particle accelerators. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Laser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation (Leonida Antonio Gizzi)....Pages 1-24 Basics of Laser-Plasma Interaction: A Selection of Topics (Andrea Macchi)....Pages 25-49 Laser Wakefield Accelerators: Plasma Wave Growth and Acceleration (Zulfikar Najmudin)....Pages 51-70 LWFA Electrons: Staged Acceleration (Masaki Kando)....Pages 71-93 Fundamentals and Applications of Hybrid LWFA-PWFA (Bernhard Hidding, Andrew Beaton, Lewis Boulton, Sebastién Corde, Andreas Doepp, Fahim Ahmad Habib et al.)....Pages 95-120 Introduction to High Brightness Electron Beam Dynamics (M. Ferrario)....Pages 121-141 Ion Acceleration: TNSA and Beyond (Marco Borghesi)....Pages 143-164 Ultrafast Plasma Imaging (Malte C. Kaluza)....Pages 165-185 Particles Simulation Through Matter in Medical Physics Using the Geant4 Toolkit: From Conventional to Laser-Driven Hadrontherapy (G. A. P. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, L. Pandola, D. Margarone, G. Petringa)....Pages 187-208 Lectures About Intense Lasers: Amplification Process (Bruno LeGarrec)....Pages 209-225 Diagnostics of Ultrafast and Ultraintense Laser Pulses (Luca Labate)....Pages 227-249 Back Matter ....Pages 251-254