scholarly journals Nonlinear plasma waves driven by short ultrarelativistic electron bunches

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 103117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhong Wang ◽  
Vladimir Khudik ◽  
Boris Breizman ◽  
Gennady Shvets
1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 1224-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Umstadter ◽  
E. Esarey ◽  
J. Kim

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1078-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
T J Schep ◽  
A V Tulupov ◽  
V A Bazylev ◽  
V V Goloviznin

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 1432-1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Esarey ◽  
Mark Pilloff

Author(s):  
M.J van der Wiel ◽  
O.J Luiten ◽  
G.J.H Brussaard ◽  
S.B van der Geer ◽  
W.H Urbanus ◽  
...  

External injection of electron bunches into laser-driven plasma waves so far has not resulted in ‘controlled’ acceleration, i.e. production of bunches with well-defined energy spread. Recent simulations, however, predict that narrow distributions can be achieved, provided the conditions for properly trapping the injected electrons are met. Under these conditions, injected bunch lengths of one to several plasma wavelengths are acceptable. This paper first describes current efforts to demonstrate this experimentally, using state-of-the-art radio frequency technology. The expected charge accelerated, however, is still low for most applications. In the second part, the paper addresses a number of novel concepts for significant enhancement of photo-injector brightness. Simulations predict that, once these concepts are realized, external injection into a wakefield accelerator will lead to accelerated bunch specs comparable to those of recent ‘laser-into-gasjet’ experiments, without the present irreproducibility of charge and final energy of the latter.


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