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

The electron accelerator for the AWAKE experiment at CERN

Sep 14, 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

Speakers

Dr Kevin PEPITONE (CERN)Dr Steffen Doebert (CERN)

Description

The AWAKE collaboration prepares a proton driven plasma wake field acceleration experiment using the SPS beam at CERN. A long proton bunch extracted from the SPS interacts with a high power laser and a 10 m long rubidium vapour plasma cell to create strong wake fields allowing sustained electron acceleration. The electron bunch to probe these wake fields get produced by a 20 MeV electron accelerator. The electron accelerator consists of an rfgun and a short booster structure. This electron source should provide beams with intensities between 0.1 to 1 nC, bunch length’s between 0.3 and 3 ps and an emittance of the order of 2 mm mrad. The wide range of parameters should cope with the uncertainties and future prospects of the planned experiments. The layout of the electron accelerator and beam dynamics simulations are presented.

Primary author

Dr Steffen Doebert (CERN)

Co-author

Dr Kevin PEPITONE (CERN)

Presentation materials