Performance of the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility and initial experimental results
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- California Univ., Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility has begun its experimental program. It is designed to address advanced acceleration research requiring very short, intense electron bunches. It incorporates two photocathode 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. This paper discusses 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, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 389078
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-HEP-CP-96-68; CONF-9608123-26; ON: DE96015071; TRN: 96:029096
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 18. international linac conference, Geneva (Switzerland), 26-30 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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