2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Chang, O.)

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MOP162	Betatron Radiation from an Off-axis Electron Beam in the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator	400
	Y. Shi, O. Chang, P. Muggli USC, Los Angeles, California, USA W. An, C. Huang, W.B. Mori UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
	Funding: supported by US DoE In the non-linear or blow-out regime of a plasma wakefield, the electrons of the accelerated bunch oscillate in a pure ion column. It was demonstrated that a single bunch can emit betatron radiation in the keV to MeV range. In a drive/witness bunch system, the witness bunch can be injected into the ion column with a transverse momentum or initial radial offset, so that the whole bunch oscillates about the column axis as one marcro-electron. This results in a larger emitted power and higher photon energy. The energy loss due to radiation can be compensated for by the energy gain from the wakefield so that the emission process can be sustained over long distance. Detailed results will be presented about the characteristics of the witness bunch oscillations and radiation through numerical simulations* and calculations. * S.Q. Wang, et al., Phys. Rev.Let., 88(13), 135004,(2002), D. K. Johnson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(17), 175003, (2006) ** C.H. Huang, et al., J. Comp. Phys., 217(2), 658, (2006)

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Betatron Radiation from an Off-axis Electron Beam in the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

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Y. Shi, O. Chang, P. Muggli
USC, Los Angeles, California, USA
W. An, C. Huang, W.B. Mori
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Funding: supported by US DoE
In the non-linear or blow-out regime of a plasma wakefield, the electrons of the accelerated bunch oscillate in a pure ion column. It was demonstrated that a single bunch can emit betatron radiation in the keV to MeV range*. In a drive/witness bunch system, the witness bunch can be injected into the ion column with a transverse momentum or initial radial offset, so that the whole bunch oscillates about the column axis as one marcro-electron. This results in a larger emitted power and higher photon energy. The energy loss due to radiation can be compensated for by the energy gain from the wakefield so that the emission process can be sustained over long distance. Detailed results will be presented about the characteristics of the witness bunch oscillations and radiation through numerical simulations** and calculations.
* S.Q. Wang, et al., Phys. Rev.Let., 88(13), 135004,(2002), D. K. Johnson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(17), 175003, (2006)
** C.H. Huang, et al., J. Comp. Phys., 217(2), 658, (2006)