Author: Clayton, C.E.
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WEPZ023 Results from Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments at FACET 2814
 
  • S.Z. Li, C.I. Clarke, R.J. England, J.T. Frederico, S.J. Gessner, M.J. Hogan, R.K. Jobe, M.D. Litos, D.R. Walz
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • E. Adli
    University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • W. An, C.E. Clayton, C. Joshi, W. Lu, K.A. Marsh, W.B. Mori, S. Tochitsky
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • P. Muggli
    USC, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE- AC02-76SF00515.
We report initial results of the Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) Experiments performed at FACET - Facility for Advanced aCcelertor Experimental Tests at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. At FACET a 23 GeV electron beam with 1.8x1010 electrons is compressed to 20 microns longitudinally and focused down to 10 microns x 10 microns transverse spot size for user driven experiments. Construction of the FACET facility completed in May 2011 with a first run of user assisted commissioning throughout the summer. The first PWFA experiments will use single electron bunches combined with a high density lithium plasma to produce accelerating gradients >10GeV/m benchmarking the FACET beam and the newly installed experimental hardware. Future plans for further study of plasma wakefield acceleration will be reviewed.