18–24 Sept 2022
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Investigating novel hybrid LPWFA accelerators using start-to-end PIConGPU simulations

21 Sept 2022, 19:15
1h
Sala Elena - Hotel Hermitage

Sala Elena - Hotel Hermitage

Speaker

Richard Pausch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

Description

The use of accelerated electrons from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) as drivers of a plasma wakefield stage (PWFA) provides compact PWFAs that can serve as a test bed for the efficient investigation and optimization of PWFAs and their development into brightness boosters. Such hybrid accelerators have been experimentally realized at HZDR and LMU to study novel injection schemes. To better understand the microscopic, nonlinear dynamic of these accelerators, the experiments were accompanied by 3D3V particle-in-cell simulations using PIConGPU.

Here, we present the latest results from these numerical studies, covering injections due to hydrodynamic shocks, beam self-modulation and breakup, and cavity elongation - all accompanied by synthetic diagnostic methods that allow direct comparison with experimental measurements.
Challenges such as parasitic injections, shock injections, and non-ideal driver beam dynamics will be discussed. Recent technical advances in PIConGPU that enabled the execution of these large-scale simulation campaigns are briefly covered, as well as new synthetic in situ shadowgraph and radiation diagnostics.

Primary author

Richard Pausch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

Co-authors

Jurjen Couperus Cabadağ (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf) Susanne Schoebel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) Klaus Steiniger (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) Michael Bussmann (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.) Yen-Yu Chang (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf) Hao Ding (LMU München) Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Moritz Foerster (LMU Munich) Max Gilljohann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Florian Haberstroh (LMU Munich) Thomas Heinemann (Uni Strathclyde / DESY) Alexander Knetsch (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée) Alexander Koehler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf) Lena Kononenko (Ecole Polytechnique) Thomas Kurz (HZDR) Alastair Nutter (University of Strathclyde / HZDR) Gaurav Raj (Post doctorant, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, 828, boulevard des Maréchaux) Patrick Ufer (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) Sébastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique) Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde / Hamburg) Stefan Karsch (LMU München) Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY) Ulrich Schramm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) Arie Irman (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf) Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

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