Performance of the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility and initial experimental results
- High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
- Physics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024 (United States)
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 {open_quote}drive{close_quote} bunches which are used to excite wakefields in dielectric loaded structures and in plasma. The second source produces much lower intensity {open_quote}witness{close_quote} 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. We discuss commissioning, initial experiments, and outline plans for a proposed 1 GeV demonstration accelerator. {copyright} {ital 1997 American Institute of Physics.}
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 580149
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9610281-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 98:004031
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 398, Issue 1; Conference: 7. advanced accelerator concepts workshop, Lake Tahoe, NV (United States), Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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