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TY - CONF AU - Vieira, J. AU - Mori, W.B. AU - Muggli, P. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Hosing Suppression in the Self-modulated Wakefield Accelerator J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - The proton driven plasma wakefield accelerator (PDPWFA) uses short LHC proton (p⁺) bunches (shorter than the plasma wavelength) as drivers for strongly non-linear plasma waves. Simulations showed that the PDPWFA could be used to accelerate electrons to 600 GeVs in 600 m long plasmas*. Currently available p⁺ bunches are much longer than the plasma wavelength, being ideal to excite intese wakefields through the self-modulation instability (SMI). An experiment is being prepared at CERN to demonstrate SMI of p⁺ bunches. In addition, lepton SMI experiments are also being prepared at SLAC, DESY-PITZ and RAL. The hosing instability (HI) is a competing instability that may lead to beam breakup, and needs to be controlled over the long propagation distances required for SMI growth and saturation. In this work we show that the HI can be suppressed after SMI saturation in the linear wakefield excitation regime. SMI saturation before beam-break up can be achieved by seeding SMI, and as long as the initial bunch centroid displacements are within the initial bunch transverse size. The HI suppression occurs via a plasma analogue of the BNS damping in conventional accelerators. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1473 EP - 1475 KW - plasma KW - wakefield KW - experiment KW - flattop KW - controls DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-TUPME049 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/tupme049.pdf ER -