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Resonant plasma wakefield experiment: Plasma simulations and multibunched electron beam diagnostics

  • Efthymios Kallos
  • , Patric Muggli
  • , Thomas Katsouleas
  • , Vitaly Yakimenko
  • , Daniil Stolyarov
  • , Igor Pogorelsky
  • , Igor Pavlishin
  • , Karl Kusche
  • , Marcus Babzien
  • , Ilan Ben-Zvi
  • , Wayne D. Kimura
  • University of Southern California
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • STI Optronics Inc.

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Abstract

In the multibunch plasma wakefield acceleration experiment at the Brookhaven National Lab's Accelerator Test Facility a 45 MeV electron beam is initially modulated through the IFEL interaction with a CO2 laser beam at 10.6 μm into a train of short microbunches, which are spaced at the laser wavelength. It is then fed into a high-density capillary plasma with a density resonant at this spacing (1.0 × 1019cm-3). The microbunched beam can resonantly excite a plasma wakefield much larger than the wakefield excited from the non-bunched beam. Here we present plasma simulations that confirm the wakefield enhancement and the results of a series of CTR measurements performed of the multibunched electron beam.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS
Subtitle of host publication12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Pages520-526
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
EventADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: 12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop - Lake Geneva, WI, United States
Duration: Jul 10 2006Jul 15 2006

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume877
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: 12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLake Geneva, WI
Period07/10/0607/15/06

Keywords

  • CTR
  • IFEL
  • Microbunching
  • Plasma
  • Resonance

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