9 GeV energy gain in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
Abstract
An electron beam has gained a maximum energy of 9 GeV per particle in a 1.3 m-long electron beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. The amount of charge accelerated in the spectral peak was 28.3 pC, and the root-mean-square energy spread was 5.0%. The mean accelerated charge and energy gain per particle of the 215 shot data set was 115 pC and 5.3 GeV, respectively, corresponding to an acceleration gradient of 4.0 GeV m-1 at the spectral peak. Moreover, the mean energy spread of the data set was 5.1%. Our results are consistent with the extrapolation of the previously reported energy gain results using a shorter, 36 cm-long plasma source to within 10%, evincing a non-evolving wake structure that can propagate distances of over a meter in length. Wake-loading effects were evident in the data through strong dependencies observed between various spectral properties and the amount of accelerated charge.
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France)
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1249057
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; DE-SC0010064
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0741-3335
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Citation Formats
Litos, M., Adli, E., Allen, J. M., An, W., Clarke, C. I., Corde, S., Clayton, C. E., Frederico, J., Gessner, S. J., Green, S. Z., Hogan, M. J., Joshi, C., Lu, W., Marsh, K. A., Mori, W. B., Schmeltz, M., Vafaei-Najafabadi, N., and Yakimenko, V. 9 GeV energy gain in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/58/3/034017.
Litos, M., Adli, E., Allen, J. M., An, W., Clarke, C. I., Corde, S., Clayton, C. E., Frederico, J., Gessner, S. J., Green, S. Z., Hogan, M. J., Joshi, C., Lu, W., Marsh, K. A., Mori, W. B., Schmeltz, M., Vafaei-Najafabadi, N., & Yakimenko, V. 9 GeV energy gain in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/58/3/034017
Litos, M., Adli, E., Allen, J. M., An, W., Clarke, C. I., Corde, S., Clayton, C. E., Frederico, J., Gessner, S. J., Green, S. Z., Hogan, M. J., Joshi, C., Lu, W., Marsh, K. A., Mori, W. B., Schmeltz, M., Vafaei-Najafabadi, N., and Yakimenko, V. Mon .
"9 GeV energy gain in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/58/3/034017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1249057.
@article{osti_1249057,
title = {9 GeV energy gain in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator},
author = {Litos, M. and Adli, E. and Allen, J. M. and An, W. and Clarke, C. I. and Corde, S. and Clayton, C. E. and Frederico, J. and Gessner, S. J. and Green, S. Z. and Hogan, M. J. and Joshi, C. and Lu, W. and Marsh, K. A. and Mori, W. B. and Schmeltz, M. and Vafaei-Najafabadi, N. and Yakimenko, V.},
abstractNote = {An electron beam has gained a maximum energy of 9 GeV per particle in a 1.3 m-long electron beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. The amount of charge accelerated in the spectral peak was 28.3 pC, and the root-mean-square energy spread was 5.0%. The mean accelerated charge and energy gain per particle of the 215 shot data set was 115 pC and 5.3 GeV, respectively, corresponding to an acceleration gradient of 4.0 GeV m-1 at the spectral peak. Moreover, the mean energy spread of the data set was 5.1%. Our results are consistent with the extrapolation of the previously reported energy gain results using a shorter, 36 cm-long plasma source to within 10%, evincing a non-evolving wake structure that can propagate distances of over a meter in length. Wake-loading effects were evident in the data through strong dependencies observed between various spectral properties and the amount of accelerated charge.},
doi = {10.1088/0741-3335/58/3/034017},
journal = {Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion},
number = 3,
volume = 58,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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