Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

using Multiple Electron Bunches

by
Themos Kallos

Queen Mary University of London

University of Southern California
Accelerator Test Facility, BNL
May 2009 AD Kaanapali Beach, Maui, HI
Today’s Menu

10 ly 10 mm
Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Basic Principles (Linear Regime)
Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Basic Principles (Linear Regime)

Witness e-

• Energy
Transformer

• Coherence
Electric field
 Previous Experimental Results
Using electron beams
• 35 MeV/m over 1.7cm
ATF SLAC

Goals:

1. Monoenergetic bunches • 50 GeV/m over 90cm

(higher I, np )
2. Multiply the energy
• Energy doubling! (42 GeV84 GeV)
3. High Efficiency
(250 J for 1nC 250 GeV e- )
Yakimenko et al., PRL 2003 & Blumenfeld et al., Nature 2007
1st Entree
 Double Bunch Experiment
Energy Loss
Wakefield and beam density, 4e+015cm-3

(MV/m)[MeV/m]
200
W D
Plasma OFF

E Amplitude
0

Wakefield -200

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

Time [ps]
4x1015 cm-3 Initial Spectra
[100,000 total]
Plasma ON

3000 Drive beam

Witness beam
# Particles

Initial
2000
Final
# of particles

1000

0
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
eBeam Energy [MeV]

 -1.3MeV over 6mm  -200MeV/m (Witness)

Kallos et al., PRL 2008
 Double Bunch Experiment
Energy Gain
Wakefield and beam density, 1e+016cm-3

Amplitude [MeV/m]
W D 200
Plasma OFF

E (MV/m)
0

Wakefield -200

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

Time [ps]
1x1016 cm-3 Initial Spectra
[100,000 total]
Plasma ON

3000 Drive beam

# Particles

Witness beam
2000 Initial
Final
# of particles

1000

0
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
eBeam Energy [MeV]

 +0.9MeV over 6mm  +150MeV/m (Witness)

Kallos et al., PRL 2008

Experimental Data
Wake Sampling
2nd Entree
 Generating Microbunches
by dispersing the energy

Energy
Time

Muggli et al., PRL 2008

 Getting High Wakefield
5
R  1.1 8
  10%
Wakefield [GV/m]

2
0
1

beam
wake 7
-5
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
Distance [ m]
 Getting High Efficiency
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 1998

2D Particle-in-Cell Simulation
OSIRIS after 45 cm in plasma

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Thank You

Tom Katsouleas

Patric Muggli

Vitaly Yakimenko

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 Dessert

Physics is like sex:

Sure, you can get some interesting results,

but that’s not why we do it.

R. Feynman