Published November 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Simulation design for forthcoming high quality plasma wakefield acceleration experiment in linear regime at SPARCLAB

  • 1. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati (Rome) (Italy)
  • 2. University of Rome "Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome (Italy)
  • 3. SBAI Department, University of Rome "Sapienza", Via Antonio Scarpa 14, 00161 Rome (Italy)
  • 4. INFN-Milan and Department of Physics, University of Milan, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan (Italy)

Description

In the context of plasma wakefield acceleration beam driven, we exploit a high density charge trailing bunch whose self-fields act by mitigating the energy spread increase via beam loading compensation, together with bunch self-contain operated by the self-consistent transverse field. The work, that will be experimentally tested in the SPARCLAB test facility, consists of a parametric scan that allows to find optimized parameters in order to preserve the high quality of the trailing bunch over the entire centimeters acceleration length, with a final energy spread increase of 0.1% and an emittance increase of 5nm. The stability of trailing bunch parameters after acceleration is tested employing a systematic scan of the parameters of the bunches at the injection. The results show that the energy spread increase keeps lower than 1% and the emittance increase is lower than 0.02 mm mrad in all the simulations performed. The energy jitter is of the order of 5%.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.081

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.081;
PII
S0168900218302614;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
909
Journal Page Range
p. 71-75
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
3. European Advanced Accelerator Concepts workshop
Acronym
EAAC2017
Dates
24-30 Sep 2017
Place
La Biodola, Isola d'Elba (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54106051
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATION; BEAMS; CHARGE DENSITY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DESIGN; LENGTH; PLASMA; TEST FACILITIES
Descriptors DEC
DIMENSIONS; SIMULATION

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.