Resonant excitation of plasma wakefields using multiple electron bunches

Journal Article · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.58854· OSTI ID:687941

Conde, M E; Gai, W ^[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. {copyright} {ital 1999 American Institute of Physics.}

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 687941
• Report Number(s): CONF-980742-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 99:010471
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 472, Issue 1; Conference: 8. workshop on advanced accelerator concepts, Baltimore, MD (United States), 6-11 Jul 1998; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ELECTRON SOURCES
WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS
ELECTRON BEAMS
BEAM BUNCHING
BEAM INJECTION
ELECTRON GUNS
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS