pre-PIC

Analytically estimate various laser-plasma parameters for experiments and PIC simulations

Features

• estimation of accelerated bunch properties (charge, energy, etc.)
• estimation of betatron spectrum
• small codebase, with minimal dependencies
• support for SI units

Quick start

We make use of the excellent pixi package manager, which can be installed on Linux/macOS via:

$ curl -fsSL https://pixi.sh/install.sh | bash

One can then clone this repo via:

$ git clone git@github.com:berceanu/prepic.git

Estimate ideal laser-plasma matching parameters based on scaling laws from [LTJT]

[LTJT]

Lu, Wei, et al. Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams 10.6 (2007): 061301.