Pointing stabilization of electron beam driven by 4TW laser

Mori, Michiaki; Mizuta, Yoshio*; Kondo, Kiminori; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Kado, Masataka; Kando, Masaki; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Ogura, Koichi; Sugiyama, Hironori*; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Bulanov, S. V.; Daido, Hiroyuki; Tanaka, Kazuo*; Nishimura, Hiroaki*

The collimatability of quasi-monoenergetic electron beam production in the self-injected laser-plasma acceleration regime is studied. The collimation of electron beam drived by terawatt femtosecond laser (4.1 TW, 40 fs) is measured at two species of gas material (Helium gasjet and Argon gasjet). We measured 3.2 mrad pointing stability and beam divergence of 11 mrad (r.m.s.) at Argon gasjet for 50 sequencial shots. At such condition, the peak electron energy is 9.11.0 MeV with 80% reproducebility. For Helium, the pointing stability is three times larger than that of Argon. It is considered that the laser channel formation is important role for stable electron beam generation.