Ionization injection and acceleration of electrons in a plasma wakefield accelerator at FACET
Author(s) -
Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi,
C. E. Clayton,
K. A. Marsh,
Weiming An,
W. Lu,
W. B. Mori,
C. Joshi,
E. Adli,
J. M. Allen,
C. Clarke,
S. Corde,
J. Frederico,
Spencer Gessner,
S. Z. Green,
M. Litos,
D. Walz,
Mark Hogan,
V. Yakimenko,
P. Muggli
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
aip conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1551-7616
pISSN - 0094-243X
DOI - 10.1063/1.4965654
Subject(s) - electron , atomic physics , plasma , plasma acceleration , physics , helium , acceleration , ionization , wake , lithium (medication) , cathode ray , nuclear physics , ion , mechanics , medicine , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , endocrinology
Localized injection of electrons within a relativistic plasma wake can potentially produce an ultrashort, monoenergetic electron bunch. Recent experiments at the FACET facility at SLAC explored the injection of helium electrons at the helium-lithium interface of a lithium heat pipe oven and the subsequent acceleration in the beam-produced plasma wake. Electrons accelerated to over 10 GeV in 30 cm of plasma were observed as a distinct charge bunch.
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