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SLAC-PUB-8189
Progress Toward E-157: A 1 GeV Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Abstract
A plasma based wakefield acceleration (PWFA) experiment, scheduled to
run this summer, will accelerate parts of a 28.5 GeV bunch from the
SLAC linac by up to 1 GeV over a length of 1 meter. A single 28.5 GeV
bunch will both induce the wakefields in the one meter long plasma and
witness the resulting acceleration fields. The experiment will explore
and further develop the techniques that are needed to apply
high-gradient PWFA to large scale accelerators. This paper summarizes
the goals of the first round of experiments as well as the status of
the individual components: construction and diagnosis of the
homogeneous lithium oven plasma source ans associated ionization
laser, commissioning of the electron beam, simulated performance of
the electron beam energy measurement, and first PIC simulations of the
full meter long experiment.
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