Author: Shiltsev, V.D.
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TUPME041 The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at Fermilab: Science Program 1447
 
  • P. Piot, E.R. Harms, S. Henderson, J.R. Leibfritz, S. Nagaitsev, V.D. Shiltsev, A. Valishev
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by DOE contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC
The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) currently in commissioning phase at Fermilab is foreseen to support a broad range of beam-based experiments to study fundamental limitations to beam intensity and to develop novel approaches to particle-beam generation, acceleration and manipulation. ASTA incorporates a superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) linac coupled to a flexible high-brightness photoinjector. The facility also includes a small-circumference storage ring capable of storing electrons or protons. This report summarizes the facility capabilities, and provide an overview of the accelerator-science researches to be enabled.
 
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TUPME061 Ultra-High Gradient Beam-Driven Channeling Acceleration in Hollow Crystalline Media 1512
 
  • Y.-M. Shin, T. Xu
    Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, USA
  • G. Flanagan
    Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
  • E.R. Harms, J. Ruan, V.D. Shiltsev
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Since the recent discovery of the Higgs boson particle, there is an increasing demand in Energy Frontier to develop new technology for a TeV/m range of acceleration gradient. The density of charge carriers, ~ 1024 – 1029 m-3, of crystals is significantly higher than that of a plasma gas, and correspondingly in principle wakefield gradients of up to 0.1 - 10 TV/m are possible. Our simulations (VORPAL and CST-PIC) with Fermilab-ASTA* beam parameters showed that micro-bunched beam gains energy up to ~ 70 MeV along the 100 um long channel under the resonant coupling condition of the plasma wavelength, ~ 10 um. Also, with lowering a charge, electron bunches channeling through a high-density plasma medium have higher energy gain in a hollow channel than in a uniformly filled cylinder, which might be attribute to lower scattering ratios of the tunnel structure. The numerical analysis implied that synthetic crystalline plasma media (e.g. carbon nanotubes) have potential to mitigate constraint of bunch charges required for beam-driven acceleration in high density plasma media. The channeling acceleration** will be tested at the ASTA facility, once fully commissioned.
* ASTA: Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator
** [1] T. Tajima and M. Cavenago, PRL 59, 13(1987)
[2] P. Chen and R. Noble, SLAC-PUB-7402(1998)
[3] V.Shiltsev, Physics Uspekhi 55, 965(2012)
 
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