A Meter-Scale Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Journal Article · Mon Nov 27 04:00:00 EST 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2409114· OSTI ID:20898699

Ischebeck, Rasmus; Berry, Melissa; Blumenfeld, Ian; Decker, Franz-Josef; Hogan, Mark J; Iverson, Richard; Siemann, Robert H; Walz, Dieter ^[1]; Clayton, Christopher E; Huang, Chengkun; Joshi, Chandrashekhar; Lu, Wei; Marsh, Kenneth A; Mori, Warren B; Miaomiao, Zhou ^[2]; Katsouleas, Thomas; Muggli, Patric; Oz, Erdem ^[3]

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1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (United States)
2. University of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (United States)
3. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (United States)

Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) have recently shown substantial progress, attaining accelerating fields of more than 30 GV/m. The goal of the present experiment is to show that such accelerating fields can be sustained over the scale of a meter, resulting in a total energy gain comparable to the entire SLAC linear accelerator. We also seek to determine which factors limit the length of the interaction and determine the maximum achievable energy.

• OSTI ID: 20898699
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 877; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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