Particle Acceleration 2

[HEDS8-02] Undepleted Direct Laser Acceleration

*Ishay Pomerantz¹, Itamar Cohen¹, Talia Meir¹, Kavin Tangtartharakul², Lior Perelmutter¹, Michal Elkind¹, Assaf Levanon¹, Alexey V Arefiev² (1. The School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 6997801, Israel, 2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, CA, USA)

I will report on our recent discovery that Direct Laser Acceleration of electrons in low-atomic number plasmas, leads to inefficient acceleration due to premature depletion of the target of its ionization electrons.