Modeling of E-164X Experiment

Conference · Tue Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:881250

Deng, S; Muggli, P; Barnes, C D; Clayton, C E; Decker, F J; Fonseca, R A; Huang, C; Hogan, M J; Iverson, R; Johnson, D K; Joshi, C; Katsouleas, T; Krejcik, P; Lu, W; Marsh, K A; Mori, W B; O'Connell, C; Oz, E; Tsung, F; Zhou, M M

In current plasma-based accelerator experiments, very short bunches (100-150 {micro}m for E164 [1] and 10-20 {micro}m for E164X [2] experiment at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)) are used to drive plasma wakes and achieve high accelerating gradients, on the order of 10-100GV/m. The self-fields of such intense bunches can tunnel ionize neutral gases and create the plasma [3,4]. This may completely change the physics of plasma wakes. A 3-D object-oriented fully parallel PIC code OSIRIS [5] is used to simulate various gas types, beam parameters, etc. to support the design of the experiments. The simulation results for real experiment parameters are presented.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 881250
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-11319; TRN: US0603050
• Resource Relation: Conference: Prepared for 11th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC 2004), Stony Brook, New York, 21-26 Jun 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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