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E-157: A 1.4 Meter-long Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment Using a 30GeV Electron Beam from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Linac
Abstract
In the E-157 experiment now being conducted at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a 30 GeV electron beam of 2 x 1010 electrons in a 0.65mm long bunch is propagated through a 1.4m long Lithium plasma of density up to 2 x 1014 e-/cm3. The initial beam density is greater than the plasma density, and the head of the bunch expels the plasma electrons leaving behind a uniform ion channel with transverse focussing fields of up to several thousand Tesla/m. The initial transverse beam size with sigma= 50-100mu-m is larger than the matched size of 5mu-m resulting in up to three beam envelope oscillations within the plasma. Time integrated optical transition radiation (OTR) is used to study the transverse beam profile immediately before and after the plasma to characterize the transverse beam dynamics as a function of plasma density. The head of the bunch deposits energy into plasma wakes, resulting in longitudinal accelerating fields which are witnessed by the tail of the same bunch. A time-resolved Cherenkov imaging system is located in an energy dispersive plane downstream of the plasma. It images the beam onto a streak camera allowing time-resolved measurements of the beam energy spectrum as a function of plasma density. Preliminary experimental data from the first three runs are compared to theory and computer simulations.
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