15–21 Sept 2019
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

First Dielectric Wakefield Experiments at Daresbury Laboratory

18 Sept 2019, 16:20
20m
SB1 (Hotel Hermitage)

SB1

Hotel Hermitage

talk WG3 - Electron beams from electromagnetic structures, including dielectric and laser-driven structures WG3 - Dielectric Beam-driven Acceleration Thz acceleration

Speaker

Yuri Saveliev (STFC, Daresbury Lab., ASTeC)

Description

First dielectric wakefield acceleration (DWA) experiments have been conducted on CLARA/VELA test facility at Daresbury Laboratory, UK. The DWA structure was of planar geometry with variable gap and dielectric thicknesses ranging from 0.025 to 0.2mm. The facility, in its current state, provided electron bunches with up to 100pC bunch charge, variable 0.2-2.0ps bunch lengths at the beam energy of 35MeV. All major wakefield effects have been demonstrated including energy modulation in longer bunches, energy dechirping, transverse streaking and focussing. With modest bunch charge of ~50pC, a decelerating field of ~8MV/m was measured. Using this variable gap planar structure, we have also demonstrated a continuously tunable narrowband THz generation (details will be given in a separate presentation). Summary of experimental results will be presented along with current status of the CLARA/VELA facility and its near future developments including implementation of the dielectric wakefield dechirper.

Primary authors

Yuri Saveliev (STFC, Daresbury Lab., ASTeC) Thomas Pacey (Cockcroft Institute/University of Manchester)

Presentation materials