RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
The plasma photocathode concept, whereby a two-species gas mixture is used to generate a beam -driven accelerating wakefield and a laser-ionized generation of a witness beam, was recently experimentally demonstrated. In a variation of this concept, a beam-driven dielectric wakefield accelerator is employed, filled with a neutral gas for laser-ionization and creation of a witness beam. The dielectric wakefields, in the terahertz regime, provide comparatively modest timing requirements for the injection phase of the witness beam. In this paper, we provide an update on the progress of the experimental realization of the hybrid dielectric wakefield accelerator with laser injected witness beam at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA), including engineering considerations for gas delivery, and preliminary simulations.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Single pulse high dynamic range BPM signal detector has been on the most wanted list of Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) Test Facility for many years. Unique capabilities of AWA beamline require BPM instrumentation with an unprecedented dynamic range, thus cost effective solution could be challenging to design and prototype. Our most recent design, and the results of our quest for a solution, are shared in this paper.
Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
TUB, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
As part of the Argonne 500 MeV short pulse Two Beam Wakefield Acceleration Demonstrator, a single cell X-band dielectric disk loaded accelerator (DDA) has been designed, fabricated, and tested at high power at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator. The DDA should provide a short pulse (~20 ns) high gradient (>300 MV/m) accelerator while maintaining a reasonable r/Q and high group velocity. This will allow a significantly larger RF-to-beam efficiency than is currently possible for conventional accelerating structures. A low loss barium titantate ceramic, µr = 50, was selected, and a low temperature brazing alloy chosen to preserve the dielectric properties of the ceramic during brazing. High power testing produced breakdown at the triple junction, resulting from the braze joint design. No evidence of breakdown was observed on the iris of the disk, indicating that the maximum surface electric field on the dielectric was not reached. An improved braze joint has been designed and is in production, with high power testing to follow.
TUXB06
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
To overcome limits on total acceleration achievable in plasma wakefield accelerators, specially shaped drive beams can be used to increase the transformer ratio, implying that the drive beam deceleration is minimized in comparison with acceleration obtained in the wake. We report the results of a nonlinear PWFA, high transformer ratio experiment using high-charge, longitudinally asymmetric drive beams in a plasma cell. An emittance exchange process is used to generate variable drive current profiles, in conjunction with a long (multiple plasma wavelength) witness beam. The witness beam is energy-modulated by the wakefield, yielding a response that contains detailed spectral information in a single-shot measurement. Using these methods, we generate a variety of beam profiles and characterize the wakefields, directly observing beam-loaded transformer ratios up to 7.8. Further, a spectrally-based current reconstruction technique, validated by 3D particle-in-cell simulations, is introduced to obtain the drive beam profile from the decelerating wakefield data.
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Drive and witness beams with variable current profiles and bunch spacing can be generated using an emittance exchange beamline (EEX) in conjunction with transverse masks. Recently, this approach was used to create advanced driver profiles and demonstrate record-breaking plasma wakefield transformer ratios [Roussel, R., et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 044802 (2020)], a crucial advancement for effective witness acceleration. Presently, these transverse masks are individually laser cut, making the refinement of beam profiles a slow process. Instead, we have proposed the used of a UHV compatible multileaf collimator (MLC) to replace these masks. An MLC permits real-time adjustment of the beam masking, permitting faster optimization in a manner highly synergistic with machine learning. Beam dynamics simulations have shown that practical MLCs offer resolution that is functionally equivalent to that offered by the laser cut masks. In this work, the engineering considerations and practical implementation of such a system at the AWA facility are discussed and the results of benchtop tests are presented.
* Roussel, Ryan, et al. PRL 124.4 (2020): 044802
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
In future plasma wakefield acceleration-based scenarios for linear colliders, beams with highly asymmetric emittance are expected. In this case, the blowout region is no longer axisymmetric, but elliptical in cross-section, which implies that the focusing is not equal in the two transverse planes. In this paper, we analyze simulations for studying the asymmetries in flat-beam driven plasma acceleration using the round-to-flat-beam transformer at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator. Beams with high charge and emittance ratios, in excess of 100:1, are routinely available at the AWA. We use particle-in-cell codes to compare various scenarios including a weak blowout, where the plasma focusing effect exhibits higher order mode asymmetry. Further, practical considerations for tunable plasma density using capillary discharge and laser ionization are compared for implementation into experimental designs.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) Test Facility has used a completely homebrewed, MS Windows-based control system for the last 20 years. In an effort to modernize the control system and prepare for an active machine learning program, the AWA will work with the Advanced Photon Source (APS) controls group to upgrade its control system to EPICS. The EPICS control system is expected to facilitate collaborations and support the future growth of AWA. An overview of the previous AWA control and data acquisition system is presented, along with a vision and path for completing the EPICS upgrade.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
The Argonne Wakefiled Accelerator (AWA) Test Facility designed and operated a homemade LLRF system for the last 20 years. It is based on NI-PXI products that has now become obsolete. The AWA’s LLRF cannot keep up with the increasing stability demands of AWA’s upgraded facility. An overhaul of the system is strongly desired. With the support from DOE-HEP, the AWA is collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)to upgrade its LLRF system with modern instrumentation to meet the growing stability demands. An overview of AWA’s current LLRF system performance is presented together with the upgrade plan and expectations.
Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
High brightness beams appealing for XFELs and UEM essentially imply a high current and a low emittance. To obtain such beams we propose to raise the accelerating voltage in the gun mitigating repealing Coulomb forces. An ultra-high gradient is achieved utilizing a short-pulse technology. We have designed a room temperature X-band 1,5 cell gun that is able to inject 4 MeV, 100 pC bunches with as low as 0.15 mcm normalized transverse emittance. The gun is operated with as high gradients as 400 MV/m and fed by 200 MW, 10 ns RF pulses generated with Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) power extractor. We report results of low RF power tests, laser alignment test results, and successful gun conditioning results carried out at nominal RF power.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
* S. V. Kuzikov, et al. these proceedings.