17–23 Sept 2023
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

High average gradient in a laser-gated multistage plasma wakefield accelerator

21 Sept 2023, 17:25
20m
Aula Maria Luisa (Hotel Hermitage)

Aula Maria Luisa

Hotel Hermitage

Oral contribution WG1: Plasma-based accelerators and ancillary components WG1:Plasma-based accelerators and ancillary components

Speaker

Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Inter-stage distances and components in multistage PWFA concepts are among the biggest potential contributors to the total accelerator length and may strongly reduce the average gradient of a plasma based accelerator.
Here, we discuss a concept to optimize inter-plasma
distances by drive-beam coupling in the temporal domain
and gating the accelerator via a femtosecond ionization laser.

Primary authors

Aimé Matheron Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Erik Adli (University of Oslo, Norway) Igor Andriyash (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquee) Max GILLJOHANN (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, France) Olena Kononenko (LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France) Dr Pablo San Miguel Claveria (Instituto Superior Técnico IST) Sébastien Corde (LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91762 Palaiseau, France) Viktoriia Zakharova (LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91762 Palaiseau, France) Yuliia Mankovska (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, IP Paris)

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