MOOCB2
CIPS, Boulder, Colorado, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
The underdense plasma photocathode concept (aka Trojan horse) *,** is a promising approach to achieving fs-scale electron bunches with pC-scale charge and transverse normalized emittance below 0.01 mm-mrad, yielding peak currents of order 100 A and beam brightness as high as 1019 A/(m rad)2, for a wide range of achievable beam energies up to 10 GeV. A proof-of-principle experiment will be conducted at the FACET user facility in early 2014. We present 2D and 3D simulations with physical parameters relevant to the planned experiment.
* Hidding et al., PRL 108:035001 (2012).
** Xi et al., PRST-AB 16:031303 (2013).
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
CIPS, Boulder, Colorado, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Many advanced accelerator concepts require the co-propagation and interaction of the electron with a laser (e.g., laser-plasma accelerators, inverse Compton scattering, laser heaters, and electron beam diagnostics with laser light). The strict requirements on beam properties necessitate numerical modeling to fully understand the complexities of the beam dynamics. Laser-specific simulations often require a different set of modeling tools. This has resulted in a hodgepodge approach, where the output of one program must be inputted into another. This paper presents the Radtrack software highlights, which aims to simplify these issues by uniting key software components under an intuitive graphical interface while addressing key problems relevant in the accelerator community.