LINAC2014 - List of Authors (Barber, S.K.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPP110	Quasi Nonlinear Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments	680
SUPG031	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	S.K. Barber, G. Andonian, B.D. O'Shea, J.B. Rosenzweig, Y. Sakai, O. Williams UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA M. Ferrario INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy P. Muggli MPI, Muenchen, Germany
	It is generally agreed that the best way forward for beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is in the nonlinear or blowout regime. In this regime the expulsion of the plasma electrons from the beam occupied region produces a linear transverse focusing effect and position independent longitudinal accelerating fields, which can, in principle, produce high quality beams accelerated over many meters. However, certain aspects of a linear plasma response can be advantageous, such as the possibility for resonant excitation of wakefields through the use of pulse trains. Exploiting advantages of both linear and nonlinear PWFA may be achievable through the use of low emittance and tightly focused beams with relatively small charge. In this case the beam density can be greater than that of the ambient plasma while simultaneously having a smaller total charge than the plasma electrons contained in a cubic plasma skin depth allowing for blowout in the region of the beam while simultaneously maintaining a quasi linear response in the bulk plasma. Recent experiments at BNL have been aimed at probing various salient aspects of this regime and are presented here.

Paper

Title

Page

TUPP110

Quasi Nonlinear Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments

680

SUPG031

use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code

S.K. Barber, G. Andonian, B.D. O'Shea, J.B. Rosenzweig, Y. Sakai, O. Williams
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
M. Ferrario
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
P. Muggli
MPI, Muenchen, Germany

It is generally agreed that the best way forward for beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is in the nonlinear or blowout regime. In this regime the expulsion of the plasma electrons from the beam occupied region produces a linear transverse focusing effect and position independent longitudinal accelerating fields, which can, in principle, produce high quality beams accelerated over many meters. However, certain aspects of a linear plasma response can be advantageous, such as the possibility for resonant excitation of wakefields through the use of pulse trains. Exploiting advantages of both linear and nonlinear PWFA may be achievable through the use of low emittance and tightly focused beams with relatively small charge. In this case the beam density can be greater than that of the ambient plasma while simultaneously having a smaller total charge than the plasma electrons contained in a cubic plasma skin depth allowing for blowout in the region of the beam while simultaneously maintaining a quasi linear response in the bulk plasma. Recent experiments at BNL have been aimed at probing various salient aspects of this regime and are presented here.