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Demonstration of a positron beam-driven hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator
Spencer Gessner
1
Erik Adli
2
James M Allen
1
Weiming An
3, 4
Christine I Clarke
1
Chris E Clayton
3
Sébastien Corde
5
J P Delahaye
1
Joel Frederico
1
Selina Z Green
1
Carsten Hast
1
Mark J Hogan
1
Chan Joshi
3
Carl A Lindstrom
2
Nate Lipkowitz
1
Michael Litos
1
Wei Lu
6
Kenneth A Marsh
3
Warren B Mori
3, 4
Brendan O'Shea
1
Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi
3
Dieter Walz
1
Vitaly Yakimenko
1
Gerald Yocky
1
Christine I Clarke 1
Author
Chris E Clayton 3
Author
Sébastien Corde 5
Author IdHAL : sebastien-corde ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5015-0387
J P Delahaye 1
Author
Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi 3
Author
Dieter Walz 1
Author
Vitaly Yakimenko 1
Author
Gerald Yocky 1
Author
1
SLAC - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC Stanford University 2575 Sand Hill Rd Menlo Park, CA 94039 - United States)
- Stanford University [Stanford] (450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-2004 - United States)
2
Department of Physics [Oslo] (P.O. Box 1048, Blindern, 0316 Oslo - Norway)
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences [Oslo] (Fysikkbygningen Ost, Sem Saelands vei 24, 0371 OSLO - Norway)
- UiO - University of Oslo (P.O 1072 Blindern 0316 Oslo - Norway)
3
UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles] ( Los Angeles, Californie 90095 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
4
Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA, Los Angeles] (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 - United States)
- UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles] ( Los Angeles, Californie 90095 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
5
LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- ENSTA Paris - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7639 (France)
6
Tsinghua University [Beijing] (Beijing, 100084 P.R. - China)
Abstract : Plasma wakefield accelerators have been used to accelerate electron and positron particle beams with gradients that are orders of magnitude larger than those achieved in conventional accelerators. In addition to being accelerated by the plasma wakefield, the beam particles also experience strong transverse forces that may disrupt the beam quality. Hollow plasma channels have been proposed as a technique for generating accelerating fields without transverse forces. Here we demonstrate a method for creating an extended hollow plasma channel and measure the wakefields created by an ultrarelativistic positron beam as it propagates through the channel. The plasma channel is created by directing a high-intensity laser pulse with a spatially modulated profile into lithium vapour, which results in an annular region of ionization. A peak decelerating field of 230 MeV/m is inferred from changes in the beam energy spectrum, in good agreement with theory and particle-in-cell simulations.
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Last modification on : Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 5:32:03 PM
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- HAL Id : hal-01337399, version 1
- DOI : 10.1038/ncomms11785
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Spencer Gessner, Erik Adli, James M Allen, Weiming An, Christine I Clarke, et al.. Demonstration of a positron beam-driven hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator. Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2016, 7, pp.11785. ⟨10.1038/ncomms11785⟩. ⟨hal-01337399⟩
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