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- Q. Gao, H.B. Chen, J. Shi
TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- S.P. Antipov
Euclid Beamlabs LLC, Bolingbrook, USA
- M.E. Conde, D.S. Doran, W. Gai, W. Liu, J.G. Power, C. Whiteford, E.E. Wisniewski
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
- C.-J. Jing
Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA
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The transformer ratio is an important figure of merit in collinear wakefield acceleration, it indicates the efficiency of energy transferring from drive bunch to witness bunch. Higher transformer ratio will significantly reduce the length of accelerator thus reducing the cost of accelerator construction. However, for the gaussian bunch, this ratio has its limit of 2. To obtain higher transformer ratio, one possible method is to tailor the beam current profile to specific shapes. One method of beam shaping is based on emittance exchange, which has been demonstrated at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator. Its principle is to tailor the beam transversely using a mask then exchange the beam's transverse profile and longitudinal profile. In this paper, we describe our efforts to optimize the beamline and mask in order to generate a triangular beam with quadratic head, which has a transformer ratio of 6.4. We also present our design of a dielectric slab based accelerating structure to measure the transformer ratio. Finally, we discuss an experiment for this high transformer ratio at Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Laboratory.
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