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Progress in laser acceleration of particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2012

Chan Joshi,
Wei Lu and
Zhengming Sheng
Chan Joshi
Affiliation:
UCLA, USA
Wei Lu
Affiliation:
Tsinghua University, China
Zhengming Sheng
Affiliation:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Laser acceleration of particles is currently a very active area of research in Plasma Physics, with an emphasis on acceleration of electrons and ions using short but intense laser pulses. In this special issue we access the current status of this field by inviting leading researchers all over the world to contribute their original works here. Many of these results were first presented at the recent Laser-Particle Acceleration Workshop (LPAW 2011) held in Wuzhen, China in June 2011. In addition to the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) of electrons (Tzoufras et al.) and laser acceleration of ions (Tsung et al.), there were exciting new proposals for a proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (Xia et al.) and for a dielectric-structure-based two-beam accelerator (Gai et al.) presented at this workshop, and we are very pleased to have the authors' contributions on these included here.

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