Research in laser-plasma accelerators and applications to medicine

Accelerator Physics Issues of a 5 TeV Wakefield Collider, C. Chiu, S. Cheshkov and T. Tajima, Beam Dynamics News Letter 21, 110 (2000). pdf

High energy laser-wakefield collider with synchronous acceleration, C. Chiu, S. Cheshkov and T. Tajima, Phys. Rev. Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams, 3, 101301 (2000), pdf

Laser Accelerator for Radiation Medicine: C. Chiu, M. Fomytskyi, F. Raischel and T. Tajima

• Text: pdf latest draft v.24
• Figures: finally, the figures in pdf (860k) and gzipped-postscript (300k) format. Large, high-resolution versions of Fig. 7 are here: pdf (4.3M), ps.gz (570k)

Revision: Laser Accelerator for Radiation Medicine: C. Chiu, M. Fomytskyi, F. Raischel and T. Tajima. Basic files to be downloaded are indicated by the symbol “ç”

• Text and Tables in pdf v27 ç
• Figures, with captions: in pdf., ç A zipped ps-file: ps.gz
• Summary on the revision. ç
• A submittal letterç
• Notes on cfrt files and directories

For MD Anderson Group:

Data files of momentum spectrum as a function of x for: a0=0.35, t=600. (See Fig. 10b of our medical application paper for px vs x)

· Format: x, px, py, pz, ptotal.

· Units: x- 10 units per mincron; Momenta are in normalized units. Example: x-momentum = px*0.5MeV/c.

· 20K data file

· 80K data file

· 20X80K data (>1 MeV)

Vary plasma wavelength: (>1MeV)

• gammap=5.2, t=400, 80K per run. bigrun: 20x80K
• run521 run522, run523, run52big
• gammap=5.0, t=500, cutoff at KE=5MeV, 80K per run.
• run501 run502, run503,run50big

Data for 2D PIC simulation:

Electron density: n=4.84e25 m^{-3}. Laserwavelength=0.8 mic and plasmawavelength=4.8 mic.

Simulation box:

· 1.e-4 times 0.8e-4 (all in meters) for ao=0.7 and ao=0.5, sigma_y=10mic

• 1.e-4 times1.2e-4 for ao=0.5, sigma_y=20mic.

File format: x[m], y[m], px/m_e[m/sec], py/m_e[m/sec], 0 {last column is always zero}

ao=0.5, gamma_p=6, pulse length=20mic, spotradius=10mic and 20mic, t*omegap=600

a0=0.5,

ao=0.7, gamma_p=6, pulse length=20mic, spotradius=10mic, t*omegap=400

ao=0.7,

Dose properties of a laser accelerated electron beam and prospects for clinical application by K. K. Kainz^a), K. R. Hogstrom, J. A. Antolak, P. R. Almond, and C. D. Bloch, C. Chiu, M. Fomytskyi, F. Raischel⁺, M. Downer, and T. Tajima^{++. pdf}

Laser Electron Accelerators for Radiation Medicine: A Feasibility Study, by Charles Chiu, Mykhailo Fomytskyi, Franklin Grigsby, Frank Raischel, Michael C. Downer and Toshiki Tajima

1. Preprint format:

1. Text, table and caption (med.pdf) pdf (update 6/5/03)

2. Figures with caption (figcap.pdf) pdf (update 6/5/03)

· For submission only: Tex- and eps- files to be uploaded through web-submission

1. Article file: Manuscript-text with table and caption (double-space, overcite), chiu_mp.tex (uploaded) , pdf

2. Figure files #1-#12: Figures: eps-files (fig1, through fig12) --uploaded

3. Supplementary material: See above item 2. under preprint format.

2. Revision:

· Text: pdf (Dec 19, 2003)