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@InProceedings{tan:napac2019-weplo06, author = {W.H. Tan and P. Piot and A. Zholents}, title = {{Start-to-End Simulation of the Drive-Beam Longitudinal Dynamics for Beam-Driven Wakefield Acceleration}}, booktitle = {Proc. NAPAC'19}, pages = {858--861}, paper = {WEPLO06}, language = {english}, keywords = {laser, simulation, electron, wakefield, linac}, venue = {Lansing, MI, USA}, series = {North American Particle Accelerator Conference}, number = {4}, publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland}, month = {10}, year = {2019}, issn = {2673-7000}, isbn = {978-3-95450-223-3}, doi = {10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEPLO06}, url = {http://jacow.org/napac2019/papers/weplo06.pdf}, note = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEPLO06}, abstract = {Collinear beam-driven wakefield acceleration (WFA) relies on shaped driver beam to provide higher accelerating gradient at a smaller cost and physical footprint. This acceleration scheme is currently envisioned to accelerate electron beams capable of driving free-electron laser *. Start-to-end simulation of drive-bunch beam dynamics is crucial for the evaluation of the design of accelerators built upon WFA. We report the start-to-end longitudinal beam dynamics simulations of an accelerator beamline capable of producing high charge drive beam. The generated wakefield when it passes through a corrugated waveguide results in a transformer ratio of 5. This paper especially discusses the challenges and criteria associated with the generation of temporally-shaped driver beam, including the beam formation in the photoinjector, and the influence of energy chirp control on beam transport stability.}, }