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Title: High-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam in a plasma wakefield accelerator

Journal Article · · Nature (London)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13882· OSTI ID:1463003
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Oslo, Oslo (Norway)
  3. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  4. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
  5. Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich (Germany)

High-efficiency acceleration of charged particle beams at high gradients of energy gain per unit length is necessary to achieve an affordable and compact high-energy collider. The plasma wakefield accelerator is one concept being developed for this purpose. In plasma wakefield acceleration, a charge-density wake with high accelerating fields is driven by the passage of an ultra-relativistic bunch of charged particles (the drive bunch) through a plasma. Furthermore, if a second bunch of relativistic electrons (the trailing bunch) with sufficient charge follows in the wake of the drive bunch at an appropriate distance, it can be efficiently accelerated to high energy.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1463003
Journal Information:
Nature (London), Vol. 515, Issue 7525; ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 340 works
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