Resonant excitation of plasma wakefields using multiple electron bunches

Journal Article · Mon Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 1999 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.58854· OSTI ID:21205375

Conde, Manoel E; Wei, Gai ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)

We plan to resonantly excite plasma wakefields using a train of electron bunches separated by an integer number of plasma wavelengths. The multiple electron bunches are generated by a photocathode based RF gun by splitting the laser beam into temporally separated pulses. The amplitude of the wakefields generated by the sequence of bunches is expected to be higher than that generated if all charge had been in only one bunch, because this single bunch would be considerably longer than the individual sub-bunches due to space charge effects in our gun.

• OSTI ID: 21205375
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 472; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
AMPLITUDES
BEAM BUNCHING
BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS
ELECTRON BEAMS
ELECTRON GUNS
ELECTRON SOURCES
ELECTRONS
EXCITATION
LASERS
PHOTOCATHODES
PLASMA
PULSES
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
SPACE CHARGE
WAVELENGTHS