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SLAC Publication: SLAC-PUB-15749
SLAC Release Date: December 1, 2014
Latest Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Results from the FACET Project
Litos, Michael.
SLACs new FACET facility had its second user run in AprilJune, 2013. Several new milestones were reached during this run, including the achieve- ment of beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration of a discrete witness bunch for the first time, and energy doubling in a noble gas plasma source. The FACET beam is a 20 GeV electron bunch with a charge of 3.2 nC that can be compressed and focused to a size of 20 {mu}m 20 {mu}m 20 {mu}m rms. To create the two-bunch, drive/witness beam structure, a ch... Show Full Abstract
SLACs new FACET facility had its second user run in AprilJune, 2013. Several new milestones were reached during this run, including the achieve- ment of beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration of a discrete witness bunch for the first time, and energy doubling in a noble gas plasma source. The FACET beam is a 20 GeV electron bunch with a charge of 3.2 nC that can be compressed and focused to a size of 20 {mu}m 20 {mu}m 20 {mu}m rms. To create the two-bunch, drive/witness beam structure, a chirped and over-compressed beam was dispersed horizontally in a chicane and a bite was taken from its middle with a tantalum finger collimator, corresponding to a longitudinal notching of the beam due to the head-tail energy correlation. A new 10 terawatt Ti:Sapphire laser was commissioned and used during this run to pre-ionize the plasma source in order to increase the efficiency of energy transfer from the beam to the wake. Ultimately, a witness beam of hun- dreds of pC in charge was accelerated by a drive beam of similar charge in a pre-formed lithium plasma with a density of 5 10{^16} cm{^-3}, experiencing gradients reaching several GeV/m in magnitude. Show Partial Abstract
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