Laser ionized preformed plasma at FACET

S. Z. Green; E. Adli; C. I. Clarke; S. Corde; S. A. Edstrom; A. S. Fisher; J. Frederico; J. C. Frisch; S. Gessner; S. Gilevich; P. Hering; M. J. Hogan; R. K. Jobe; M. Litos; J. E. May; D. R. Walz; V. Yakimenko; C. E. Clayton; C. Joshi; K. A. Marsh; N. Vafaei-Najafabadi; P. Muggli

doi:10.1088/0741-3335/56/8/084011

Laser ionized preformed plasma at FACET

S. Z. Green
, E. Adli
, C. I. Clarke
, S. Corde
, S. A. Edstrom
, A. S. Fisher
, J. Frederico
, J. C. Frisch
, S. Gessner
, S. Gilevich
, P. Hering
, M. J. Hogan
, R. K. Jobe
, M. Litos
, J. E. May
, D. R. Walz
, V. Yakimenko
, C. E. Clayton
, C. Joshi
, K. A. Marsh

N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, P. Muggli

Physics and Astronomy

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Oslo
University of California at Los Angeles
Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)

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Abstract

The Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests (FACET) at SLAC installed a 10-TW Ti : sapphire laser system for pre-ionized plasma wakefield acceleration experiments. High energy (500mJ), short (50fs) pulses of 800nm laser light at 1Hz are used at the FACET experimental area to produce a plasma column. The laser pulses are stretched to 250 fs before injection into a vapor cell, where the laser is focused by an axicon lens to form a plasma column that can be sustained over the desired radius and length. A 20GeV electron bunch interacts with this preformed plasma to generate a non-linear wakefield, thus accelerating a trailing witness bunch with gradients on the order of several GVm^-1. The experimental setup and the methods for producing the pre-ionized plasma for plasma wakefield acceleration experiments performed at FACET are described.

Original language	English
Article number	084011
Journal	Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Volume	56
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/56/8/084011
State	Published - Aug 1 2014

Keywords

laser ionization
plasma source
plasma wakefield accelerator

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Green, S. Z., Adli, E., Clarke, C. I., Corde, S., Edstrom, S. A., Fisher, A. S., Frederico, J., Frisch, J. C., Gessner, S., Gilevich, S., Hering, P., Hogan, M. J., Jobe, R. K., Litos, M., May, J. E., Walz, D. R., Yakimenko, V., Clayton, C. E., Joshi, C., ... Muggli, P. (2014). Laser ionized preformed plasma at FACET. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 56(8), Article 084011. https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/56/8/084011

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