scholarly journals An Active Plasma Beam Dump for EuPRAXIA Beams

Instruments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Alexandre Bonatto ◽  
Roger Pizzato Nunes ◽  
Bruno Silveira Nunes ◽  
Sanjeev Kumar ◽  
Linbo Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Active Plasma ◽  
Particle Beams ◽  
High Power Lasers ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Plasma Beam ◽  
Beam Output ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Plasma Wakefield

Plasma wakefields driven by high power lasers or relativistic particle beams can be orders of magnitude larger than the fields produced in conventional accelerating structures. Since the plasma wakefield is composed not only of accelerating but also of decelerating phases, this paper proposes to utilize the strong decelerating field induced by a laser pulse in the plasma to absorb the beam energy, in a scheme known as the active plasma beam dump. The design of this active plasma beam dump has considered the beam output by the EuPRAXIA facility. Analytical estimates were obtained, and compared with particle-in-cell simulations. The obtained results indicate that this active plasma beam dump can contribute for more compact, safer, and greener accelerators in the near future.

scholarly journals Plasma Beam Dumps for the EuPRAXIA Facility

Instruments ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Guoxing Xia ◽  
Alexandre Bonatto ◽  
Roger Pizzato Nunes ◽  
Linbo Liang ◽  
Oscar Jakobsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Conventional Technique ◽  
Particle Accelerator ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Plasma Beam ◽  
Conventional Technology ◽  
Laser Plasma Accelerator ◽  
Beam Parameters

Beam dumps are indispensable components for particle accelerator facilities to absorb or dispose beam kinetic energy in a safe way. However, the design of beam dumps based on conventional technology, i.e., energy deposition via beam–dense matter interaction, makes the beam dump facility complicated and large in size, partly due to the high beam intensities and energies achieved. In addition, specific methods are needed to address the radioactive hazards that these high-power beams generate. On the other hand, the European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence in Application (EuPRAXIA) project can advance the laser–plasma accelerator significantly by achieving a 1–5 GeV high-quality electron beam in a compact layout. Nevertheless, beam dumps based on the conventional technique will still produce radiation hazards and make the overall footprint less compact. Here, a plasma beam dump will be implemented to absorb the kinetic energy from the EuPRAXIA beam. In doing so, the overall compactness of the EuPRAXIA layout could be further improved, and the radioactivity generated by the facility can be mitigated. In this paper, results from particle-in-cell simulations are presented for plasma beam dumps based on EuPRAXIA beam parameters.

scholarly journals High-resolution sampling of beam-driven plasma wakefields

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Schröder ◽  
C. A. Lindstrøm ◽  
S. Bohlen ◽  
G. Boyle ◽  
R. D’Arcy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Acceleration Process ◽  
Plasma Parameters ◽  
Particle Beams ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Precise Control ◽  
Plasma Wakefield Accelerators ◽  
Plasma Wakefield ◽  
Good Agreement

AbstractPlasma-wakefield accelerators driven by intense particle beams promise to significantly reduce the size of future high-energy facilities. Such applications require particle beams with a well-controlled energy spectrum, which necessitates detailed tailoring of the plasma wakefield. Precise measurements of the effective wakefield structure are therefore essential for optimising the acceleration process. Here we propose and demonstrate such a measurement technique that enables femtosecond-level (15 fs) sampling of longitudinal electric fields of order gigavolts-per-meter (0.8 GV m−1). This method—based on energy collimation of the incoming bunch—made it possible to investigate the effect of beam and plasma parameters on the beam-loaded longitudinally integrated plasma wakefield, showing good agreement with particle-in-cell simulations. These results open the door to high-quality operation of future plasma accelerators through precise control of the acceleration process.

scholarly journals Plasma Beam Dumps for EuPRAXIA Facility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoxing Xia ◽  
Alexandre Bonatto ◽  
Roger Pizzato Nunes ◽  
Linbo Liang ◽  
Oscar Jakobsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Conventional Technique ◽  
Particle Accelerator ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Plasma Beam ◽  
Conventional Technology ◽  
Laser Plasma Accelerator ◽  
Beam Parameters

Beam dumps are indispensable components for particle accelerator facilities to absorb or dispose beam kinetic energy in a safe way. However, the design of beam dumps based on conventional technology, i.e. the energy deposition via beam-dense matter interaction, makes the beam dump facility complicated and large in size, partly due to nowadays’ high beam intensities and energies achieved. In addition, these high-power beams generate radioactive hazards, which need specific methods to deal with. On the other hand, the EuPRAXIA project can advance the laser-plasma accelerator significantly by achieving 1-5 GeV high quality electron beam in a compact layout. Nevertheless, the beam dump based on conventional technique will still produce radiation hazards and make the overall footprint less compact. Here, we propose to implement a plasma beam dump to absorb the kinetic energy from the EuPRAXIA beam. In doing so, the overall compactness of the EuPRAXIA layout will not be impacted, and the radioactivity generated by the facility can be mitigated. In this paper, results from particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are presented for plasma beam dumps based on EuPRAXIA beam parameters.

scholarly journals New Relativistic Particle-In-Cell Simulation Studies of Prompt and Early Afterglows from GRBs

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.-I. Nishikawa ◽  
J. Niemiec ◽  
H. Sol ◽  
M. Medvedev ◽  
B. Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Simulation Studies ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Cell Simulation

scholarly journals Hose Instability for Relativistic Particle Beams in a Plasma Background

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Mjolsness ◽  
J. Enoch ◽  
C. L. Longmire
Keyword(s):  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Particle Beams ◽  
Plasma Background

scholarly journals Hybrid LWFA–PWFA staging as a beam energy and brightness transformer: conceptual design and simulations

2019 ◽  
Vol 377 (2151) ◽  
pp. 20180175 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Martinez de la Ossa ◽  
R. W. Assmann ◽  
M. Bussmann ◽  
S. Corde ◽  
J. P. Couperus Cabadağ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Particle Beam ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Wakefield Acceleration ◽  
Plasma Wakefield Accelerator ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Plasma Wakefield ◽  
Wakefield Accelerator

We present a conceptual design for a hybrid laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (LWFA) to beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA). In this set-up, the output beams from an LWFA stage are used as input beams of a new PWFA stage. In the PWFA stage, a new witness beam of largely increased quality can be produced and accelerated to higher energies. The feasibility and the potential of this concept is shown through exemplary particle-in-cell simulations. In addition, preliminary simulation results for a proof-of-concept experiment in Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) are shown. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Directions in particle beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration’.

scholarly journals Relativistic Particle Beams as a Resource to Solve Outstanding Problems in Space Physics

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ennio R. Sanchez ◽  
Andrew T. Powis ◽  
Igor D. Kaganovich ◽  
Robert Marshall ◽  
Peter Porazik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Space Physics ◽  
Particle Beams

scholarly journals Relativistic Particle-In-Cell Simulation Studies of Prompt and Early Afterglows from GRBs

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Mizuno ◽  
K.-I. Nishikawa ◽  
P. Hardee ◽  
G. J. Fishman ◽  
R. Preece ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Simulation Studies ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Cell Simulation
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