Author: Hogan, M.J.
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MOPMW040 Electron Beam Excitation of a Surface Wave in mm-Wave Open Accelerating Structures 494
 
  • M. Dal Forno, G.B. Bowden, C.I. Clarke, V.A. Dolgashev, M.J. Hogan, D.J. McCormick, A. Novokhatski, B.D. O'Shea, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • B. Spataro
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
 
  Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
As part of research on the physics of rf breakdowns we performed experiments with high gradient traveling-wave mm-wave accelerating structures. The accelerating structures are open, composed of two identical halves separated by an adjustable gap. The electromagnetic fields are excited by an ultra-relativistic electron beam. We observed that a confined travelling-wave mode exists in half of the accelerating structure. The experiments were conducted at FACET facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Depending on the gap width, the accelerating structure had beam-synchronous frequencies that vary from 90 to 140 GHz. When we opened the gap by more than half wavelength the synchronous wave remains trapped. Its behavior is consistent with the so called "surface wave". We characterized this beam-wave interaction by several methods: measurement of the radiated rf energy with the pyro-detector, measurement of the spectrum with an interferometer, measurement of the beam deflection by using the beam position monitors and profile monitor.
 
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MOPMW041 Measurements of RF Breakdowns in Beam Driven mm-Wave Accelerating Structures 497
 
  • M. Dal Forno, G.B. Bowden, C.I. Clarke, V.A. Dolgashev, M.J. Hogan, D.J. McCormick, A. Novokhatski, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • B. Spataro
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
 
  Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
We studied the physics and properties of rf breakdowns in high gradient traveling-wave accelerating structures at 100 GHz. The structures are open, made of two halves with a gap in between. The rf fields were excited in the structure by an ultra-relativistic electron beam generated by the FACET facility at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We observed rf breakdowns generated in the presence of GV/m scale electric fields. We varied the rf fields excited by the FACET bunch by moving structure relative to the beam and by changing the gap between structure halves. Reliable breakdowns detectors allowed us to measure the rf breakdown rate at these different rf parameters. We measured radiated rf energy with a pyro-detector. When the beam was off-axis, we observed beam deflection in the beam position monitors and on the screen of a magnetic spectrometer. The measurements of the deflection allowed us to verify our calculation of the accelerating gradient.
 
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TUOBB02 FACET-II Accelerator Research with Beams of Extreme Intensities 1067
 
  • V. Yakimenko, Y. Cai, C.I. Clarke, S.Z. Green, C. Hast, M.J. Hogan, N. Lipkowitz, N. Phinney, G.R. White, G. Yocky
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  In 2016, the second phase of SLAC's x-ray laser, the LCLS-II, will begin to use part of the tunnel occupied by FACET, and the world's only multi-GeV facility for advanced accelerator research will cease operation. FACET-II is a new test facility to provide DOE with the unique capability to develop advanced acceleration and coherent radiation techniques with high-energy electron and positron beams. FACET-II is an opportunity to build on the decades-long experience developed conducting advanced accelerator R&D at the FFTB and FACET and re-deploy HEP infrastructure in continued service of its mission. FACET-II provides a major upgrade over current FACET capabilities and the breadth of the potential research program makes it truly unique. It will synergistically pursue accelerator science that is vital to the future of both advanced acceleration techniques for High Energy Physics, ultra-high brightness beams for Basic Energy Science, and novel radiation sources for a wide variety of applications. The presentation will discuss FACET-II project status and plans for diverse experimental program.  
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TUPOW017 Twin Bunches at the FACET-II 1778
 
  • Z. Zhang
    TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • M.J. Hogan, Z. Huang, A. Marinelli
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Twin electron bunches, generated, accelerated and compressed in the same acceleration bucket, have attracted a lot of interest in the free-electron lasers and wakefield acceleration. The recent successful experiment at the LCLS used twin bunches to generate two-color two x-ray pulses with tunable time delay and energy separation. In this note, we apply the twin bunches to the plasma wakefield acceleration. Numerical simulations show that based on the beamline of the FACET-II, we can generate high-intensity two electron bunches with time delay from  ∼ 100 fs to picoseconds, which will benefit the control of high-gradient witness bunch acceleration in a plasma.  
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THPPA01 Demonstration of the Hollow Channel Plasma Wakefield Accelerator 3202
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  • S.J. Gessner, J.M. Allen, C.I. Clarke, J.-P. Delahaye, J.T. Frederico, S.Z. Green, C. Hast, M.J. Hogan, N. Lipkowitz, M.D. Litos, B.D. O'Shea, D.R. Walz, V. Yakimenko, G. Yocky
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • E. Adli, C.A. Lindstrøm
    University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • W. An, C.E. Clayton, C. Joshi, K.A. Marsh, W.B. Mori, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • S. Corde, A. Doche
    LOA, Palaiseau, France
  • W. Lu
    TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: Work supported by DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Over the past decade, there has been enormous progress in the field of beam and laser-driven plasma acceleration of electron beams. However, in order for plasma wakefield acceleration to be useful for a high-energy e+e- collider, we need a technique for accelerating positrons in plasma as well. This is a unique challenge, because the plasma responds differently to electron and positron beams, with plasma electrons being pulled through the positron beam and creating a non-linear focusing force. Here, we demonstrate a technique called hollow channel acceleration that symmetrizes the wakefield response to beams of either charge. Using a transversely shaped laser pulse, we create an annular plasma with a fixed radius of 200 μm. We observe the acceleration of a positron bunch with energies up to 33.4 MeV in a 25 cm long channel, indicating an effective gradient greater than 100 MeV/m. This is the first demonstration of a technique that way be used for staged acceleration of positron beams in plasma.
 
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