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Beam hosing instability in overdense plasma

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773769· OSTI ID:22075898
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
Transverse stability of the drive beam is critical to plasma wakefield accelerators. A long, relativistic particle beam propagating in an overdense plasma is subject to beam envelope modulation and hosing (centroid displacement) instabilities. Coupled equations for the beam centroid and envelope are derived. The growth rate for beam hosing is examined including return current effects (where the beam radius is of order the plasma skin depth) in the long-beam, strongly-coupled, overdense regime.
OSTI ID:
22075898
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1507; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English