Measurement of the Decelerating Wake in a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Journal Article · Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3080969· OSTI ID:21255281

Blumenfeld, I; Decker, F J; Hogan, M J; Ischebeck, R; Iverson, R H; Kirby, N; Siemann, R H; Walz, D R ^[1]; Clayton, C E; Huang, C; Joshi, C; Lu, W; Marsh, K A; Mori, W B; Zhou, M ^[2]; Katsouleas, T; Muggli, P; Oz, E ^[3]

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1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (United States)
2. University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)
3. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 (United States)

Recent experiments at SLAC have shown that high gradient acceleration of electrons is achievable in meter scale plasmas. Results from these experiments show that the wakefield is sensitive to parameters in the electron beam which drives it. In the experiment the bunch lengths were varied systematically at constant charge. The effort to extract a measurement of the decelerating wake from the maximum energy loss of the electron beam is discussed.

• OSTI ID: 21255281
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1086, Issue 1; Conference: 13. advanced accelerator concepts workshop, Santa Cruz, CA (United States), 27 Jul - 2 Aug 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3080969; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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