A Meter-Scale Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) have recently shown substantial progress, attaining accelerating fields of more than 30 GV/m. The goal of the present experiment is to show that such accelerating fields can be sustained over the scale of a meter, resulting in a total energy gain comparable to th...

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Published in:AIP conference proceedings 2006-11, Vol.877 (1)
Main Authors: Ischebeck, Rasmus, Berry, Melissa, Blumenfeld, Ian, Decker, Franz-Josef, Hogan, Mark J., Iverson, Richard, Siemann, Robert H., Walz, Dieter, Clayton, Christopher E., Huang, Chengkun, Joshi, Chandrashekhar, Lu, Wei, Marsh, Kenneth A., Mori, Warren B., Zhou Miaomiao, Katsouleas, Thomas, Muggli, Patric, Oz, Erdem
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ACCELERATION
BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
PLASMA ACCELERATION
STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS
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Summary:Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) have recently shown substantial progress, attaining accelerating fields of more than 30 GV/m. The goal of the present experiment is to show that such accelerating fields can be sustained over the scale of a meter, resulting in a total energy gain comparable to the entire SLAC linear accelerator. We also seek to determine which factors limit the length of the interaction and determine the maximum achievable energy.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.2409114