Experimental Results

of a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

using Multiple Electron Bunches
by
Themos Kallos

Themos Kallos, Tom Katsouleas, Patric Muggli

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
&
Karl Kusche, Jangho Park, Igor Pogorelsky, Daniil Stolyarov, Vitaly Yakimenko
Accelerator Test Facility @ Brookhaven National Lab
Upton, NY, USA
&
Wayne D. Kimura
STI Optronics, Inc.
Bellevue, WA, USA
 • Gradient of
35 MeV/m (ILC)
150MeV/m (CLIC)
~10 cm
• Limited e.g. by
wall breakdown*

• Plasmas support
10 – 100 GeV/m

*Braun et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2003

 Witness e-

~ 100 μm 2 c e2 n p
p  
p  0 me

Electric field
 ATF SLAC

• 35 MeV/m over 1.7cm of plasma

Can we multiply the energy? • 50 GeV/m over 85cm of plasma

• Energy doubling! (42 GeV84 GeV)

(thus reducing the length and cost)

Yakimenko et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2003 Blumenfeld et al., Nature 2007
 • 0.1 – 1 atm H2
~ 1 cm
• 20 kV charging voltage

• Collect light to measure plasma

density (Stark Broadening)

1014 – 1018 cm-3

3 – 5 μs duration
 Plasma Density for 10mm capillary [T=2eV, H ]

100Torr 20kV
18 100Torr 10kV
Plasma Density [cm-3]

10 30Torr 20kV
30Torr 10kV

17
10

16
10
-0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6
Time [ s]
Prima Piatti
λp λp
  E 
 z  R56  

z  E 
z  D 0

Nb  E 
 x ,mask  
 E 0 

Energy

P. Muggli et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2008 Time

 Energy

• 150-200 pC after the mask

• 100 – 300 μm period
• Resonant at 1016 – 1017 cm-3
 Wakefield and beam density, 4e+017cm -3
400
Wakefield Amplitude [MeV/m]

eBeam
Wakefield
200

-200

-400
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
Time [ps]
Energy Spectrum after 10mm of plasma
10000
# of particles [100,000 total]

8000

6000

4000

2000

0
54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68
eBeam Energy [MeV]
 140
5 Bunches 150pC
120
Wake Amplitude [MeV/m]

No mask 300pC
100

80 20% or ~100ns

60

40

20

0 14 15 16 17 18
10 10 10 10 10
Plasma density [cm-3]
 Experiment Wakefield and beam density, 7e+013cm-3

Wakefield [MeV/m]
Plasma off 20 Head eBeam
Wakefield
0 Data
Plasma on
Shots at 2.368 s or 7.2e+013 cm-3 -20
1.5
Plasma OFF 0 1 2 3 4 5
Plasma ON Time [ps]
Energy Spectrum after 6mm of plasma
1 1000
Beam density [a.u.]

ON Simulation OFF
0.5 500
Head Head
0
0
58.4 58.6 58.8 59 59.2 59.4 59.6 58.5 59 59.5
Beam Energy [MeV] eBeam Energy [MeV]

• whole bunch: 35MeV/m

• microbunches: 22MeV/m after 6mm of plasma @ 7x1013 cm-3
Secondi Piatti
 5
R  1.1 8
  10%
Wakefield [GV/m]

beam
wake 7
-5
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
Distance [ m]
 5
R 8 8
  64%
Wakefield [GV/m]

0
1 1 1 1

beam
wake
-5
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
Distance [ m]

Laziev et al., EPAC 1988 Jing et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007
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Thank you!