Author: England, R.J.
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MOOAB02 First Results from the Electron Hose Instability Studies in FACET 43
 
  • E. Adli
    University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • W. An, C.E. Clayton, C. Joshi, K.A. Marsh, W.B. Mori, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • S. Corde, R.J. England, J.T. Frederico, S.J. Gessner, M.J. Hogan, S.Z. Li, M.D. Litos, Z. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • W. Lu
    TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • P. Muggli
    MPI, Muenchen, Germany
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the Research Council of Norway and U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515.
We present the first results from experimental studies of the electron hose instability in the plasma-wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET. Theory and PIC simulations of an electron beam as it travels through a plasma indicate that hosing may lead to a significant distortion of the transverse phase space. The FACET dump line is equipped with a Cherenkov light based spectrometer which can resolve transverse motion as a function of beam energy. We compare the predictions from simulations and theory to the experimental results obtained.
 
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TUYB02 Manufacture and Testing of Optical-scale Accelerator Structures from Silicon and Silica 1050
 
  • R.J. England, E.R. Colby, R. Laouar, C. McGuinness, B. Montazeri, R.J. Noble, K. Soong, J.E. Spencer, D.R. Walz, Z. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • R.L. Byer, C.M. Chang, K.J. Leedle, E.A. Peralta
    Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  • B.M. Cowan
    Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • M. Qi
    Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
 
  We report on recent progress in the design, manufacture and testing of optical-scale accelerator structures made from silicon and silica. The potential of these structures for the development of extremely compact, efficient, and low cost accelerators producing attosecond electron pulses will be discussed, together with various possible applications.  
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WEPPP010 FACET: SLAC's New User Facility 2741
 
  • C.I. Clarke, F.-J. Decker, R.J. England, R.A. Erickson, C. Hast, M.J. Hogan, S.Z. Li, M.D. Litos, Y. Nosochkov, J.T. Seeman, J. Sheppard, U. Wienands, M. Woodley, G. Yocky
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515.
FACET (Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests) is a new User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The first User Run started in spring 2012 with 20 GeV, 3 nC electron beams. The facility is designed to provide short (20 um) bunches and small (20 um wide) spot sizes, producing uniquely high power beams. FACET supports studies from many fields but in particular those of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and Dielectric Wakefield Acceleration. The creation of drive and witness bunches and shaped bunch profiles is possible with "Notch" Collimation. FACET is also a source of THz radiation for material studies. Positrons will be available at FACET in future user runs. We present the User Facility and the available tools and opportunities for future experiments.
 
 
WEPPP056 Positron PWFA Simulations for FACET 2834
 
  • S.J. Gessner, E. Adli, S. Corde, R.J. England, J.T. Frederico, M.J. Hogan, S.Z. Li, M.D. Litos, T.O. Raubenheimer, D.R. Walz, Z. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • W. An, W.B. Mori
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported [optional: in part] by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515.
When a positron beam enters a plasma, plasma electrons are drawn in toward the beam axis, creating a region of extremely large charge density with complicated, nonlinear fields. Few analytic solutions exist to describe these fields, and this necessitates the use of simulations to model positron beam and plasma interactions. This presentation should cover recent work on positron PWFA simulations using the QuickPIC* particle-in-cell code. I will discuss the computational challenges associated with positron PWFA and specific applications of the simulations for future experimental tests at the FACET user facility at SLAC.
* C. Huang et al., "QuickPIC: A highly efficient particle-in-cell code for modeling wakefield acceleration in plasmas," J. Comp. Phys. 217, 658 (2006).