Speaker
Dr
Matthias Gross
(DESY)
Description
In light of the planned particle driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment at CERN (AWAKE collaboration), particle beam self-modulation as proposed by Caldwell et al. has gained interest. Calculations and simulations show promising results but there is no direct experimental evidence yet. Therefore an effort was started at the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY, Zeuthen Site (PITZ), to set up an experiment to demonstrate and characterize self-modulation in electron beams. A lithium heat pipe oven is being developed as a plasma cell following the basic design of Muggli et al. Current features of the PITZ beam line which will be utilized for the experiment are amongst others the Max-Born Institute built photocathode laser system with a flexible temporal pulse shaper and the well-developed electron beam diagnostics. In this contribution the current status of preparing the self-modulation experiment at PITZ is summarized. Further on the efforts towards a planned experiment demonstrating plasma wakefield acceleration with high transformer ratio will be presented.
Primary author
Dr
Matthias Gross
(DESY)
Co-authors
Dr
Frank Stephan
(DESY, Zeuthen site)
Mr
Gaurav Pathak
(University of Hamburg)
