Plasma wakefield acceleration at CLARA facility in Daresbury Laboratory


Xia, G, Nie, Y, Mete, O, Hanahoe, K, Dover, M, Wigram, M, Wright, J, Zhang, J, Smith, J, Pacey, T et al (show 3 more authors) (2016) Plasma wakefield acceleration at CLARA facility in Daresbury Laboratory. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 829. pp. 43-49.

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Abstract

A plasma accelerator research station (PARS) has been proposed to study the key issues in electron driven plasma wakefield acceleration at CLARA facility in Daresbury Laboratory. In this paper, the quasi-nonlinear regime of beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration is analysed. The wakefield excited by various CLARA beam settings are simulated by using a 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) code. For a single drive beam, an accelerating gradient up to 3 GV/m can be achieved. For a two bunch acceleration scenario, simulation shows that a witness bunch can achieve a significant energy gain in a 10–50 cm long plasma cell.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Plasma wakefield acceleration, Particle-in-cell, Quasi-nonlinear regime, Two-bunch acceleration
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2016 07:40
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 07:34
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2016.01.007
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3002131
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