Prospects for an Integrated Experimental Demonstration of a Channel-Guided, Standard Laser Wakefield Accelerator

Summary form only given. The channel-guided, standard laser wakefield accelerator (CGS-LWFA) is a laser-driven plasma-based accelerator concept that has the potential to produce high quality accelerated electron bunches over extremely short acceleration distances. Operation in the short pulse or "standard" regime would provide strong, stable accelerating fields, and the use of a plasma channel would provide optical guiding over many Rayleigh...