Author: Farinella, D.M.
Paper Title Page
TUPMY028 Ultra-high Gradient Acceleration in Nano-crystal Channels 1607
 
  • Y.-M. Shin
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • D.M. Farinella, P. Taborek, T. Tajima
    UCI, Irvine, California, USA
  • A.H. Lumpkin, V.D. Shiltsev, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • X. Zhang
    Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the DOE contract No.DEAC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC. We also thank the FAST Department team for the helpful discussions and technical support.
Crystals behave like a non-equilibrium medium (e.g. plasma), but at a relatively low temperature, if heated by a high-power driving source. The warm dense matter contains many more ions (n0 ~ 1019 - 1023 cm-3) available for plasma acceleration than gaseous plasmas, and can possibly support electric fields of up to 30 TV/m of plasma oscillation*,**,***,****. Atomic lattice spaces in solid crystals are known to consist of 10 - 100 V/Å potential barriers capable of guiding and collimating high energy particles with continuously focused acceleration. Nanostructured crystals (e.g. carbon nanotube) with dimensional flexibilities can accept a few orders of magnitude larger phase-space volume of channeled particles than natural crystals. Our PIC simulation results*****, ****** obtained from two plasma acceleration codes, VORPAL and EPOCH, indicate that in the linear regime the beam-driven and laser-driven electrons channeled in a 100 micro-meter long effective nanotube gain 10 MeV (G = 1 - 10 TeV/m). Experimental tests, including slit-mask beam modulation and pump-probe electron diffraction, are designed in Fermilab and NIU to identify a wakefield effect in a photo-excited crystal.
* Phys. Rev.Lett. 43, 267(1979)
** Phys. Plasmas 15, 103105(2008)
*** Nature Photonics 9, 274(2015)
**** Phys. J. 223, 1037(2014)
***** Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 114106(2014)
****** Phys. Plasmas 20, 123106(2013)
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMY028  
Export • reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)