Published June 1989 | Version v1
Report

Beatwave acceleration experiments

  • 1. Univ. of California, Los Angeles (USA)

Description

The possibility of using high density plasmas as a medium for a high gradient accelerator is being studied experimentally at UCLA. This proof-of-principle experiment uses a large CO2 laser to excite plasma waves with large accelerating fields and a 1.5 MeV linac to probe the fields. Preliminary results from optical scattering diagnostics indicate that the length L of the wave times the accelerating gradient Ea is so far limited to EaL ≤ 3.2 MeV whereas the experiment is designed to achieve EaL ∼ 10 MeV. 9 refs., 6 figs

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
1988 linear accelerator conference proceedings
Imprint Pagination
718 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 544-546.
Report number
DOE/ER/40150--126

Conference

Title
14. linear accelerator conference (LINAC-14).
Dates
3-7 Oct 1988.
Place
Newport News, VA (USA).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract FG03-87ER13752
Secondary number(s)
CONF-881049--; CEBAF--89-001.