Proposal for a One GeV Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at SLAC. PDF Download

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A plasma-based wakefield acceleration experiment E-157 has been approved at SLAC to study acceleration of parts of an SLC bunch by up to 1 GeV/m over a length of 1 m. A single SLC bunch is used to both induce wakefields in the one meter long plasma and to witness the resulting beam acceleration. The experiment will explore and further development the techniques that are needed to apply high-gradient plasma wakefield acceleration to large scale accelerators. The one meter length of the experiment is about two orders of magnitude larger than other high gradient plasma wakefield acceleration experiments and the 1 GeV/m accelerating gradient is roughly ten times larger than that achieved with conventional metallic structures. Using existing SLAC facilities, the experiment will study high gradient acceleration at the forefront of advanced accelerator research.

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A plasma-based wakefield acceleration (PWFA) experiment is proposed that will accelerate parts of an SLC bunch by up to 1 GeV/m over a length of 1 m. A single SLC bunch is used to both induce wakefields in the one meter long plasma and to witness the resulting beam acceleration. The proposed experiment will explore and further develop the techniques that are needed to apply high-gradient plasma wakefield acceleration to large scale accelerators. The one meter length of the experiment is about two orders of magnitude larger than other high-gradient PWFA experiments and the 1 GeV/m accelerating gradient is roughly ten times larger than that achieved with conventional metallic structures. Using existing SLAC facilities, the proposed experiment will allow the study of high-gradient acceleration at the forefront of advanced accelerator research.

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A plasma based wakefield acceleration (PWFA) experiment, scheduled to run this summer, will accelerate parts of a 28.5 GeV bunch from the SLAC linac by up to 1 GeV over a length of 1 meter. A single 28.5 GeV bunch will both induce the wakefields in the one meter long plasma and witness the resulting acceleration fields. The experiment will explore and further develop the techniques that are needed to apply high-gradient PWFA to large scale accelerators. This paper summarizes the goals of the first round of experiments as well as the status of the individual components: construction and diagnosis of the homogeneous lithium oven plasma source and associated ionization laser, commissioning of the electron beam, simulated performance of the electron beam energy measurement, and first PIC simulations of the full meter long experiment.

Author: M. J. Hogan
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The creation of ultra-high current, ultra-short pulse beams Q=3 nC, {sigma}{sub z} = 20{micro}m at the SLAC FFTB has opened the way for very high gradient plasma wakefield acceleration experiments. We study here the use of these beams in a proposed Cherenkov wakefield experiment, where one may excite electromagnetic wakes in a simple dielectric tube with inner diameter of few 100 microns that exceed the GV/m level. We discuss the scaling of the fields with design geometric design parameters, and choice of dielectric. We also examine measurable aspects of the experiment, such as the total coherent Cerenkov radiation energy one may collect, and the expected aspects of dielectric breakdown at high fields.

Author: Yangmei Li
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030501167
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This thesis focuses on a cutting-edge area of research, which is aligned with CERN's mainstream research, the "AWAKE" project, dedicated to proving the capability of accelerating particles to the energy frontier by the high energy proton beam. The author participated in this project and has advanced the plasma wakefield theory and modelling significantly, especially concerning future plasma acceleration based collider design. The thesis addresses electron beam acceleration to high energy whilst preserving its high quality driven by a single short proton bunch in hollow plasma. It also demonstrates stable deceleration of multiple proton bunches in a nonlinear regime with strong resonant wakefield excitation in hollow plasma, and generation of high energy and high quality electron or positron bunches. Further work includes the assessment of transverse instabilities induced by misaligned beams in hollow plasma and enhancement of the wakefield amplitude driven by a self-modulated long proton bunch with a tapered plasma. This work has major potential to impact the next generation of linear colliders and also in the long-term may help develop compact accelerators for use in industrial and medical facilities.

Author: Oliver Brning
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814436402
Category : Science
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"The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This book describes the past 100 years of accelerator development with a special focus on the technological advancements in the field, the connection of the various accelerator projects to key developments and discoveries in the Standard Model, how accelerator technologies open the door to other applications in medicine and industry, and finally presents an outlook of future accelerator projects for the coming decades."--Provided by publisher.

Author: Stephen Myers
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814436410
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The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This book describes the past 100 years of accelerator development with a special focus on the technological advancements in the field, the connection of the various accelerator projects to key developments and discoveries in the Standard Model, how accelerator technologies open the door to other applications in medicine and industry, and finally presents an outlook of future accelerator projects for the coming decades.

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The E-164 experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is the third in a series investigating Plasma Wakefield Acceleration where the wake is driven by electron bunches. A collaboration between SLAC, UCLA and USC, E-164 has up to 2 x 101° electrons at 28.5 GeV in 100 micron long bunches. These bunches enter a 30cm long Lithium plasma with density of 6 x 1015 electrons/cm3, where the transfer of energy from the head of the bunch to the tail takes place. In addition to acceleration, strong focusing, refraction of the electron beam and ''betatron X-ray'' production are all investigated. E-164 builds on related prior experiments, and its apparatus has evolved considerably. A third Optical Transition Radiator has been added for real time Twiss Parameter measurements which include the effects of scattering. The plasma cell is moved to the focus of the Final Focus Test Beam facility in order to increase bunch electron density. Spectrometry is extended with an upstream chicane in a dispersive region to produce synchrotron X-rays. Performance of these improvements and status of the experiment are discussed.

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The costs and the time scales of colliders intended to reach the energy frontier are such that it is important to explore new methods of accelerating particles to high energies. Plasma-based accelerators are particularly attractive because they are capable of producing accelerating fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those used in conventional colliders. In these accelerators a drive beam, either laser or particle, produces a plasma wave (wakefield) that accelerates charged particles. The ultimate utility of plasma accelerators will depend on sustaining ultra-high accelerating fields over a substantial length to achieve a significant energy gain. More than 42 GeV energy gain was achieved in an 85 cm long plasma wakefield accelerator driven by a 42 GeV electron drive beam in the Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB) Facility at SLAC. Most of the beam electrons lose energy to the plasma wave, but some electrons in the back of the same beam pulse are accelerated with a field of ≈52 GV/m. This effectively doubles their energy, producing the energy gain of the 3 km long SLAC accelerator in less than a meter for a small fraction of the electrons in the injected bunch. Prospects for a drive-witness bunch configuration and high-gradient positron acceleration experiments planned for the SABER facility will be discussed.

Author: Weiming An
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There is no clear path for building a particle accelerator at the energy frontier beyond the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). One option that is receiving attention is to use plasma wave wakefields driven by intense particle beams. Recent experiments conducted at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) show that accelerating gradients in such wakefields in excess of 50 GeV/m can be sustained over meter scales. Based on this, a linear collider concept of staging one-meter long plasma cells together has been proposed. A facility at SLAC has been built to study the physics in one stage. In this dissertation we describe improvements and enhancements to a highly efficient simulation model for simulating current experiments at SLAC as well as parameters beyond the reach of current experiments. The model is the quasi-static particle-in-cell (PIC) code QuickPIC. A modified set of quasi-static field equations were developed, which reduced the number of predictor corrector iteration loops and an improved source deposit scheme was developed to reduce the parallel communication. These improvements led to a factor of 5 to 8 (depending on the simulation parameters) speedup compared with the previous set of field equations and deposition scheme. Several new modules were also added to QuickPIC, including the multiple field ionization and improved beam and plasma particle diagnostics. We also used QuickPIC to study the optimum plasma density for maximizing the acceleration field for fixed electron beam parameters. QuickPIC simulations were also used to study and design two-bunch PWFA experiments at SLAC including methods for mitigating the ionization-induced beam head erosion. The mitigation methods can enhance the energy gain in two-bunch PWFA experiments at SLAC by a factor of 10 for the same beam parameters. For beam parameters beyond SLAC but perhaps necessary for a future collider, QuickPIC was used to study how the ultra high electric fields of a tightly focused second electron bunch could lead to ion motion, which disrupts the focusing fields on the second bunch. The resulting nonlinearity in the transverse focusing force of the plasma wake will lead to emittance growth. We used QuickPIC to carry out the first fully self-consistent high resolution simulation on the effects of ion motion for PWFA linear collider problems. Preliminary results showed that the plasma-ion-motion-induced emittance growth was limited to less than a factor of 2. In addition to the electron beam driven PWFA, we also study how a short proton beam can excite a large plasma wake. Such short proton beams are currently not experimentally available. We therefore also study how long proton beams such as those at Fermi National Laboratory and CERN may drive a large plasma wake through a self-modulation instability. A linear theory for the self-modulation instability is presented under the wide beam limit. QuickPIC simulations show that the self-modulation of a long proton beam in a plasma may lead to the micro-bunching of the beam and excite a large plasma wake.