Effects of Ion Motion in Intense Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)
Recent proposals for using plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) as a component of a linear collider have included intense electron beams with densities many times in excess of the plasma density. The beam's electric fields expel the plasma electrons from the beam path to many beam radii in this regime. We analyze here the motion of plasma ions under the beam fields, and find for a proposed PWFA collider scenario that the ions completely collapse inside of the beam. Simulations of ion collapse are presented. Implications of ion motion on the feasibility of the PWFA-based colliders are discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 20699538
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 19; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.195002; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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