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)
