Near-Ideal Dechirper for Plasma-Based Electron and Positron Acceleration Using a Hollow Channel Plasma

Wu, Y. P.; Hua, J. F.; Pai, C. -H.; An, W.; Zhou, Z.; Zhang, J.; Liu, S.; Peng, B.; Fang, Y.; Zhou, S. Y.; Xu, X. L.; Zhang, C. J.; Li, F.; Nie, Z.; Lu, W.; Mori, W. B.; Joshi, C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.064011

Title: Near-Ideal Dechirper for Plasma-Based Electron and Positron Acceleration Using a Hollow Channel Plasma

Journal Article · 04 December 2019 · Physical Review Applied

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.064011 · OSTI ID:1594960

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Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing (China)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Stanford, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Plasma-based electron or positron wakefield acceleration has made great strides in the past decade. Currently, one major challenge for its applications to coherent light sources and colliders is the relatively large energy spread (few-percent level) of the accelerated beams. This energy spread is usually dominated by a longitudinally correlated energy chirp induced by the wakefield. It is highly desirable to have a systematic method for reducing this spread to ≲ 0.1% and, at the same time, maintaining the beam emittance. Here, a near-ideal dechirper based on a low-density hollow channel plasma is proposed and tested through large-scale three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Here, the theoretical analyses and simulations confirm that the positively correlated energy spread (chirp) of the electron or positron beam from a plasma accelerator can be significantly reduced by its self-wake in the hollow plasma channel from a few percent down to ≲ 0.1% without noticeable beam emittance growth. Such a near-ideal dechirper may significantly improve the beam quality of plasma-based accelerators; thus paving the way for their applications to future compact free-electron lasers and colliders.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; 11535006; 11425521; 11775125; 11875175; SC0010064; SC0008491; SC0008316

OSTI ID:: 1594960

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Vol. 12, Issue 6; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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