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WEPOST039 | Mapping Charge Capture and Acceleration in a Plasma Wakefield of a Proton Bunch Using Variable Emittance Electron Beam Injection | 1780 |
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In the Phase 2 of the AWAKE first experimental run (from May to November 2018), an electron beam was used to probe and test proton-driven wakefield accelera-tion in a rubidium plasma column. The witness electron bunches were produced using an RF-gun equipped with a Cs2Te photocathode illuminated by a tailorable ultrafast ultraviolet (UV) laser pulse. The construction of the UV beam optical system enabled appropriate transverse beam shaping and control of its pulse duration, size, and position on the photocathode, as well as time delay with respect to the ionizing laser pulse that seeds the plasma wakefields in the proton bunches. Variable photocathode illumination provided the required flexibility to produce electron bunches with variable charge, emittance, and injection trajectory into the plasma column. In this work, we analyze the overall charge capture and shot-to-shot reproducibility of the proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator with various UV illumination and electron bunch injection parameters. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST039 | |
About • | Received ※ 23 May 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 29 June 2022 | |
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THPOPT033 | Performance Characterisation at Daresbury Laboratory of Cs-Te Photocathodes Grown at CERN | 2653 |
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Funding: STFC Doctoral Training Studentship The search for high-performance photocathodes is a priority in the field of particle accelerators. The surface characteristics of a photocathode affect many important factors of the photoemission process including the photoemission threshold, the intrinsic emittance and the quantum efficiency. These factors in turn define the electron beam quality, which is measurable using figures of merit like beam emittance, brightness and energy spread. We present characterisation measurements for four caesium telluride photocathodes synthesized at CERN. The photocathodes were transported under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and analysed at STFC Daresbury Laboratory, using ASTeC’s Multiprobe (SAPI)* for surface characterisation via XPS and STM, and for Mean Transverse Energy (MTE) measurements using the Transverse Energy Spread Spectrometer (TESS)**. The MTE measurements were estimated at cryogenic and room temperatures based on the respective transverse energy distribution curves. We discuss correlations found between the synthesis parameters, and the measured surface characteristics and MTE values. *B.L. Militsyn, 4-th EuCARD2 WP12.5 meeting, Warsaw, 14-15 March 2017 **L.B. Jones et al., Proc. FEL ’13, TUPPS033, 290-293; https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/FEL2013/papers/tupso33.pdf |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOPT033 | |
About • | Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 July 2022 | |
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