Sep 13 – 19, 2015
La Biodola, Isola d'Elba
Europe/Rome timezone

Downramp-assisted underdense photocathode electron bunch generation in plasma wakefield accelerators

Sep 17, 2015, 6:30 PM
20m
SML Sala Maria Luisa (Hotel Hermitage)

SML Sala Maria Luisa

Hotel Hermitage

talk WG1 - Electron beams from plasmas WG1 - Electron beams from plasmas

Speaker

Mr Alexander Knetsch (University of Hamburg)

Description

The underdense photocathode "Trojan Horse" plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technique for the generation of high-brightness and low-emittance witness bunches. It is shown that requirements on the driver electron beam can be substantially decreased by performing the witness beam generation on a soft density downramp, which facilitates trapping. As a consequence the underdense photocathode technique is applicable by a larger number of accelerator facilities and dark current is effectively suppressed.

Primary author

Mr Alexander Knetsch (University of Hamburg)

Co-authors

Dr Aihua Deng (UCLA) Prof. Bernhard Hidding (University of Hamburg DESY , University of Strathclyde & UCLA) Bruhwiler David L. (RadiaSoft LLC) Prof. D. A. Jaroszynski (SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde) Mr Georg Wittig (Universität Hamburg, CFEL) Dr Grace Gloria Manahan (SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde) Dr Guoxing Xia (Cockcroft Institute and the University of Manchester) Mr Henning Groth (University of Hamburg) Prof. James Rosenzweig (UCLA) Dr Jonathan SMITH (Tech-X UK Ltd) Mr Oliver Karger (University of Hamburg, Institute for Experimental Physics) Dr Steven Jamison (STFC Daresbury Laboratory) Mr Yunfeng Xi (UCLA) Prof. Zheng-ming Sheng (SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde)

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