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Eric Esarey is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research activity spans mainly in the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with numerous publications in specialized subfields such as Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Radiation.

The primary topics of Eric Esarey's work cover extensive areas in laser and particle physics, including:

  • Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
  • Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
  • Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Nuclear Physics and Applications
  • Particle accelerators and beam dynamics
  • Laser Design and Applications

Esarey frequently publishes in several venues notable within the physics and engineering communities. These include:

  • Physics of Plasmas
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
  • Journal of Instrumentation

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric Esarey are:

  • "A new platform for ultra-high dose rate radiobiological research using the BELLA PW laser proton beamline," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Transformative Technology for FLASH Radiation Therapy," 2023, Applied Sciences
  • "Acceleration of high charge ion beams with achromatic divergence by petawatt laser pulses," 2020, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
  • "Laser-heated capillary discharge plasma waveguides for electron acceleration to 8 GeV," 2020, Physics of Plasmas
  • "High-quality positron acceleration in beam-driven plasma accelerators," 2020, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

Throughout their career, Eric Esarey has collaborated extensively with various researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • C. B. Schroeder
  • C. G. R. Geddes
  • A. J. Gonsalves
  • J. van Tilborg
  • S. S. Bulanov

Best Publications

  • Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators

    E. Esarey;C. B. Schroeder;W. P. Leemans

  • High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding

    Cgr Geddes;Cgr Geddes;Cs Tóth;van J Jeroen Tilborg;van J Jeroen Tilborg;EH Esarey

  • GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator

    W. P. Leemans;B. Nagler;A. J. Gonsalves;Cs. Tóth

  • Overview of plasma-based accelerator concepts

    E. Esarey;P. Sprangle;J. Krall;A. Ting

  • Multi-GeV Electron Beams from Capillary-Discharge-Guided Subpetawatt Laser Pulses in the Self-Trapping Regime

    W. P. Leemans;W. P. Leemans;A. J. Gonsalves;H.-S. Mao;K. Nakamura

  • Petawatt Laser Guiding and Electron Beam Acceleration to 8 GeV in a Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguide.

    A. J. Gonsalves;K. Nakamura;J. Daniels;C. Benedetti

  • Nonlinear theory of intense laser-plasma interactions.

    P. Sprangle;E. Esarey;A. Ting

  • Propagation and guiding of intense laser pulses in plasmas

    P. Sprangle;E. Esarey;J. Krall;G. Joyce

  • Electron Injection into Plasma Wakefields by Colliding Laser Pulses

    E. Esarey;R. F. Hubbard;W. P. Leemans;A. Ting

  • Self-focusing and guiding of short laser pulses in ionizing gases and plasmas

    E. Esarey;P. Sprangle;J. Krall;A. Ting

  • Nonlinear interaction of intense laser pulses in plasmas

    P. Sprangle;E. Esarey;A. Ting

  • Laser wakefield acceleration and relativistic optical guiding

    P. Sprangle;E. Esarey;A. Ting;G. Joyce

  • Nonlinear Thomson scattering of intense laser pulses from beams and plasmas

    E. Esarey;S. K. Ride;P. Sprangle

  • Plasma-Density-Gradient Injection of Low Absolute-Momentum-Spread Electron Bunches

    C. G. R. Geddes;K. Nakamura;G. R. Plateau;Cs. Toth

  • Observation of Terahertz emission from a laser-plasma accelerated electron bunch crossing a plasma-vacuum boundary

    W. P. Leemans;C. G. R. Geddes;J. Faure;Cs. Tóth

  • Laser acceleration of electrons in vacuum

    Eric Esarey;Phillip Sprangle;Jonathan Krall

  • Relativistic Self-Focusing of Short-Pulse Radiation Beams in Plasmas

    P. Sprangle;Cha-Mei Tang;E. Esarey

  • Laser-driven plasma-wave electron accelerators

    Wim Leemans;Eric Esarey

  • Synchrotron radiation from electron beams in plasma focusing channels

    E. Esarey;B.A. Shadwick;P. Catravas;W.P. Leemans

  • Guiding of High Intensity Laser Pulses in Straight and Curved Plasma Channel Experiments.

    Y. Ehrlich;C. Cohen;A. Zigler;J. Krall

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip Sprangle
Phillip Sprangle University of Maryland, College Park
Warren Mori
Warren Mori University of California, Los Angeles
Sergei V. Bulanov
Sergei V. Bulanov Czech Academy of Sciences
Thomas M. Antonsen
Thomas M. Antonsen University of Maryland, College Park
Karl Krushelnick
Karl Krushelnick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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