Speaker
Dr
Laura Corner
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Description
External injection of high quality, low energy electron bunches into a laser driven plasma wakefield has been proposed as a method to improve the quality and stability of the accelerated electrons. Simulations have shown the preservation of emittance and energy spread of injected bunches but there has been only one experiment to date demonstrating successful injection and acceleration. We report the results of a new experiment at the Daresbury Laboratory, UK, to study the acceleration of 35MeV electons from the CLARA linear accelerator injected into a laser plasma wakefield.
Primary authors
Dr
Laura Corner
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Dr
Lewis Reid
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Mr
Harry Jones
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Mr
Miles Radford
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Mr
Jonathan Christie
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Mr
Alex Morris
(Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Dr
Elisabetta Boella
(University of Lancaster)
Mr
Lewis Boulton
(DESY/University of Strathclyde)
Prof.
Bernhard Hidding
Dr
Alexander Knetsch
(LOA)
