Performance of the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility and initial experimental results
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). High Energy Physics Div.
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Physics Dept.
The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility has begun its experimental program. This unique facility is designed to address advanced acceleration research which requires very short, intense electron bunches. The facility incorporates two photo-cathode based electron sources. One produces up to 100 nC, multi-kiloamp drive bunches which are used to excite wakefields in dielectric loaded structures and in plasma. The second source produces much lower intensity witness pulses which are used to probe the fields produced by the drive. The drive and witness pulses can be precisely timed as well as laterally positioned with respect to each other. The authors discuss commissioning, initial experiments, and outline plans for a proposed 1 GeV demonstration accelerator.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 554892
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-HEP-CP-97-62; CONF-9610210-; ON: DE97054040; TRN: 98:008663
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. workshop on advanced accelerator concepts, Lake Tahoe, CA (United States), 12-18 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1997]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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