IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Osterhoff, J.)

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WEEPPB001	Progress Toward a High-Transformer-Ratio Dielectric Wakefield Experiment at FLASH	2166
	F. Lemery, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA J. Osterhoff MPQ, Garching, Munich, Germany C.A.J. Palmer DESY, Hamburg, Germany P. Stoltz Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 Dielectric wakefield accelerators offer many advantages over conventional RF accelerators such as higher acceleration gradients and cost effectiveness. In this paper we describe our experimental plans to demonstrate enhanced transformer ratios with drive and witness bunches. The experiment, will be performed at the Free-electron LASer in Hamburg (FLASH) and utilizes unique pulse shaping capabilities using the dual-frequency superconducting linac to produce high transformer ratios (>2). The beam-driven acceleration mechanism will be based on a cylindrical-symmetric dielectric-lined waveguide (DLW). The experimental setup is described, and start-to-end numerical simulations of the experiment will be presented.

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Progress Toward a High-Transformer-Ratio Dielectric Wakefield Experiment at FLASH

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F. Lemery, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
J. Osterhoff
MPQ, Garching, Munich, Germany
C.A.J. Palmer
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
P. Stoltz
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357
Dielectric wakefield accelerators offer many advantages over conventional RF accelerators such as higher acceleration gradients and cost effectiveness. In this paper we describe our experimental plans to demonstrate enhanced transformer ratios with drive and witness bunches. The experiment, will be performed at the Free-electron LASer in Hamburg (FLASH) and utilizes unique pulse shaping capabilities using the dual-frequency superconducting linac to produce high transformer ratios (>2). The beam-driven acceleration mechanism will be based on a cylindrical-symmetric dielectric-lined waveguide (DLW). The experimental setup is described, and start-to-end numerical simulations of the experiment will be presented.