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ArticleNature communications2026

Bright electron bunches from a plasma-wakefield accelerator with a steep density down-ramp.

J C Wood, L Boulton, J Beinortaitė, J Björklund Svensson, S Bohlen, G Boyle, J M Garland, P Gonzalez Caminal, C A Lindstrøm, G Loisch and 9 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

J C WoodDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany. jonathan.wood@desy.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4413-7044
L BoultonDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
J BeinortaitėDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-2272-1936
J Björklund SvenssonDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7161-9714
S BohlenDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8927-9009
G BoyleDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8581-4307
J M GarlandDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
P Gonzalez CaminalDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
C A LindstrømDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0769-0425
G LoischDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6178-2339
S M MewesDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-7382
T ParikhDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
F PeñaDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-513X
K PõderDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-3510
S SchröderDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0649-9995
M ThévenetDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7216-2277
S WeschDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-8884
J OsterhoffDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7684-0140
R D'ArcyDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

Funding

Helmholtz Association ARDHelmholtz Association ATHENAHelmholtz Association IuVF ZT-0009 programmeRCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-brightness electron bunches drive fundamental research in particle physics and photon science. Key to achieving a high brightness is to have a low transverse emittance, which ensures that the bunch can be tightly focussed. In radiofrequency accelerators a low initial emittance can be rapidly degraded due to space charge forces, which are greatly diminished once the electron bunch attains a relativistic velocity. A plasma accelerator can maintain orders-of-magnitude higher accelerating fields than radiofrequency accelerators, while multiple techniques exist to create a low emittance electron bunch directly inside the plasma accelerator structure. Plasma accelerators therefore offer a possibility to create high-brightness bunches in wakefields driven even by low-quality drive bunches. Here we demonstrate the injection and gigavolt-per-metre acceleration of electron bunches with mm-mrad normalised emittance,

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PMCPMC12902086

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