IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Litos, M.D.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEPZ028	Status of Plasma Electron Hose Instability Studies in FACET	2826
	E. Adli University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway W. An, W.B. Mori UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA R.J. England, J.T. Frederico, M.J. Hogan, S.Z. Li, M.D. Litos, Y. Nosochkov SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This work is supported by the Research Council of Norway, the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program and US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. In the FACET plasma-wakefield acceleration experiments a dense 23 GeV electron beam will interact with lithium and cesium plasmas, leading to plasma ion-channel formation. The interaction between the electron beam and the plasma sheath-electrons may lead to a fast growing electron hose instability. By using optics dispersion knobs to induce a controlled z-x tilt along the beam entering the plasma, we investigate the transverse behavior of the beam in the plasma as function of the tilt. We seek to quantify limits on the instability in order to further explore potential limitations on future plasma wakefield accelerators due to the electron hose instability.

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.

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Status of Plasma Electron Hose Instability Studies in FACET

2826

E. Adli
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
W. An, W.B. Mori
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
R.J. England, J.T. Frederico, M.J. Hogan, S.Z. Li, M.D. Litos, Y. Nosochkov
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This work is supported by the Research Council of Norway, the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program and US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
In the FACET plasma-wakefield acceleration experiments a dense 23 GeV electron beam will interact with lithium and cesium plasmas, leading to plasma ion-channel formation. The interaction between the electron beam and the plasma sheath-electrons may lead to a fast growing electron hose instability. By using optics dispersion knobs to induce a controlled z-x tilt along the beam entering the plasma, we investigate the transverse behavior of the beam in the plasma as function of the tilt. We seek to quantify limits on the instability in order to further explore potential limitations on future plasma wakefield accelerators due to the electron hose instability.

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.