24–30 Sept 2017
La Biodola, Isola d'Elba
Europe/Rome timezone

BEAM QUALITY PRESERVATION IN A LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR WITH EXTERNAL INJECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF EuPRAXIA

27 Sept 2017, 19:30
1h
Parking Area, Hotel Hermitage

Parking Area, Hotel Hermitage

poster WG6 - Theory and Simulations Wine and Poster Session 2 (WG4-WG5-WG6-WG7)

Speaker

Dr Elena Svystun (DESY)

Description

Over the past decades the production of multi-GeV electron beams from laser-plasma-based accelerators has been successfully demonstrated. However, the overall quality of electron beams produced in plasma accelerators is not yet good enough for the realization of applications such as compact X-ray sources for material processing or medical imaging. To satisfy the requirements of these user-applications, produced electron beams should have sufficient stability, reproducibility and quality. To avoid degradation of the relative energy spread during acceleration, the electron beam should be injected at the proper phase and its longitudinal size should be much shorter than the plasma wave length. Tailoring the longitudinal plasma density profile has been used to minimize emittance growth. We present studies on minimization of the beam quality degradation during acceleration to 1 GeV in a laser plasma accelerator with external injection from an RF linac, using simulations with the particle-in-cell code OSIRIS [1]. [1] R. Fonseca et al., Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2331, 342 (2002); R. Fonseca et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 50, 124034 (2008).

Primary author

Dr Elena Svystun (DESY)

Co-authors

Barbara Marchetti (DESY) Mr Jun Zhu (MPY, DESY) Ms Maria Katharina Weikum (DESY / University of Strathclyde) Dr Paul Andreas Walker (DESY) Dr Ralph Assmann (DESY) Mr Thomas Heinemann (Uni Strathclyde / DESY) Mr Ulrich Dorda (DESY) Mr Ángel Ferran Pousa (DESY)

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