Author: Xi, Y.
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MOOCB2
 Modeling Underdense Plasma Photocathode Experiments  
 
  • D.L. Bruhwiler
    CIPS, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • G. Andonian, J.B. Rosenzweig, Y. Xi
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  • G. Andonian
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • E. Cormier-Michel
    Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • B. Hidding
    Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
  
  Funding: Work supported by DOE under Contract Nos. DE-SC0009533, DE-FG02-07ER46272 and DE-FG03-92ER40693, and by ONR under Contract No. N00014-06-1-0925. NERSC computing resources are supported by DOE.
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). 		 
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