Speaker
David Cesar
(UCLA-PBPL)
Description
RF photoguns are an appealing source for injecting electrons into a plasma wake because they can produce extremely high brightness beams. In order to capture a large percentage of the beam, we find that it is necessary to pre-bunch the beam close to the plasma frequency. We determine the plasma parameters necessary to capture and accelerate electrons from a table-top sized RF beamline such as that at UCLA’s PEGASUS facility. Bunch dynamics are confirmed by particle tracking.
Primary author
David Cesar
(UCLA-PBPL)
Co-author
Prof.
Pietro Musumeci
(UCLA)
