Towards a Practical Multi-Meter Long Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator: Problems and Solutions

A multi-meter long collinear dielectric wakefield accelerator is considered, and it is shown that a single bunch breakup instability is a major limiting factor for obtaining highly efficient energy transfer from the drive bunch to the main bunch. Different methods for instability suppression are stu...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE transactions on nuclear science 2016-04, Vol.63 (2), p.804-811
Main Authors: Shchegolkov, Dmitry Y., Simakov, Evgenya I., Zholents, Alexander A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
Accelerator Design, Technology, and Operations
Beam breakup instability
BNS damping
collinear wakefield accelerator
dielectric wakefield accelerator
Dielectrics
Drives
electron bunch shaping
Electron tubes
Lattices
Particle beams
Rectangular waveguides
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A multi-meter long collinear dielectric wakefield accelerator is considered, and it is shown that a single bunch breakup instability is a major limiting factor for obtaining highly efficient energy transfer from the drive bunch to the main bunch. Different methods for instability suppression are studied. Numerical simulations using a 6D particle tracking computer code are performed and tolerances to various errors are defined.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/TNS.2015.2482820