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TY - CONF AU - Moody, J.T. AU - Batsch, F. AU - Berti, N. AU - Joulaei, A. AU - Kasparian, J. AU - Muggli, P. AU - Öz, E. ED - Henderson, Stuart ED - Akers, Evelyn ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Laser Propagation Effects During Photoionization of Meter Scale Rubidium Vapor Source J2 - Proc. of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA, May 3-8, 2015 C1 - Richmond, VA, USA T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 6 LA - english AB - The baseline AWAKE experiment requires a 10 meter long plasma source with a density of 10¹⁵ cm⁻³ and a density uniformity of 0.2%. To produce this plasma, a temperature stabilized rubidium vapor source is photoionized by a terawatt peak power laser pulse. In this paper we describe the laser pulse evolution within the plasma source including the dispersive, diffractive, and photoionization effects on the laser pulse. These calculations will be experimentally investigated in a meter long heat pipe oven using scaled laser parameters. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2499 EP - 2501 KW - laser KW - plasma KW - experiment KW - proton KW - wakefield DA - 2015/06 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-168-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-WEPWA006 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2015/papers/wepwa006.pdf ER -