A plasma medium can support a variety of wave motions which may be useful for accelerating charged particles. For highly relativistic beams the longitudinal electrostatic wave is most suitable and may be driven by laser or by particle beams. The basic principles, limitations and prospects for these devices are discussed.
{"title":"Plasma Based Accelerators","authors":"R. Evans","doi":"10.1063/1.36478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.36478","url":null,"abstract":"A plasma medium can support a variety of wave motions which may be useful for accelerating charged particles. For highly relativistic beams the longitudinal electrostatic wave is most suitable and may be driven by laser or by particle beams. The basic principles, limitations and prospects for these devices are discussed.","PeriodicalId":448506,"journal":{"name":"Laser-Plasma Interactions 4","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125810937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}