PROPOSAL FOR A PRE-BUNCHED LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION EXPERIMENT AT THE BNL DUV FEL FACILITY.

Conference · Mon May 12 04:00:00 EDT 2003

OSTI ID:15006683

We propose a pre-bunched Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) experiment in a plasma channel at the BNL DUV-FEL Facility. BNL DUV-FEL facility is uniquely qualified to carry out the proposed experiment because of the high-brightness' electron beam and RF synchronized TW Ti:Sapphire laser system. The DUV-FEL is a 200 MeV linac facility equipped with a photocathode RF gun injector, a 100 fs Ti:Sapphire laser system and a magnetic bunch compressor. The proposed LWFA will inject a 150 MeV, 10 fs electron bunch into a centimeters long plasma channel. Simulation and preliminary experiment showed that, high-brightness 10 fs electron bunch with 20 pC charge could be produced using the technique of longitudinal emittance compensation. The initial experiment will be performed using the existing Ti:Sapphire laser system (50mJ, 100 fs) with 30 {micro}m spot and 4 cm channel, the maximum energy gain will be about 15 MeV. We propose to upgrade the existing SDL laser output to 500 mJ with a shorter pulse length (50 fs). For an electron beam spot size of 20 um, the expected energy gain is about 100 MeV for a 5 TW, 50 fs laser pulse.

• Research Organization: BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/SC (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 15006683
• Report Number(s): BNL--71584-2003-CP; KA403000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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