Published May 30, 2003 | Version v1
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Plasma-wakefield acceleration of an intense positron beam

Creators

  • 1. University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)
  • 2. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94309 (United States)
  • 3. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 (United States)

Description

Plasma wakefields are both excited and probed by propagating an intense 28.5 GeV positron beam through a 1.4 m long lithium plasma. The main body of the beam loses energy in exciting this wakefield while positrons in the back of the same beam can be accelerated by the same wakefield as it changes sign. The scaling of energy loss with plasma density as well as the energy gain seen at the highest plasma density is in excellent agreement with simulations

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.214801;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
90
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 214801-214801.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35046701
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS; LITHIUM; PLASMA; PLASMA DENSITY; POSITRON BEAMS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SIMULATION; WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; ALKALI METALS; BEAMS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; LEPTON BEAMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; METALS; PARTICLE BEAMS

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