TY - JOUR AU - Jalas, Sören AU - Kirchen, Manuel AU - Messner, Philipp AU - Winkler, Paul AU - Hübner, Lars AU - Dirkwinkel, Julian AU - Schnepp, Matthias AU - Lehe, Remi AU - Maier, Andreas TI - Bayesian Optimization of a Laser-Plasma Accelerator JO - Physical review letters VL - 126 IS - 10 SN - 0031-9007 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - PUBDB-2021-00902 SP - 104801 PY - 2021 AB - Generating high-quality laser-plasma accelerated electron beams requires carefully balancing a plethora of physical effects and is therefore challenging—both conceptually and in experiments. Here, we use Bayesian optimization of key laser and plasma parameters to flatten the longitudinal phase space of an ionization-injected electron bunch via optimal beam loading. We first study the concept with particle-in-cell simulations and then demonstrate it in experiments. Starting from an arbitrary set point, the plasma accelerator autonomously tunes the beam energy spread to the subpercent level at 254 MeV and 4.7 pC/MeV spectral density. Finally, we study a robust regime, which improves the stability of the laser-plasma accelerator and delivers sub-five-percent rms energy spread beams for 90 KW - Plasma and Beam Physics (autogen) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:33784117 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000627631100006 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.104801 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/455042 ER -