Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: We present plasma wakefield acceleration experimental results showing that the energy gain by 28.5 GeV electrons scales with plasma length and reaches 14 GeV over a plasma with a density of 2.6 × 10 17 cm −3 and a length of 31 cm. At this plasma density the average accelerating gradient is 36 GeV m −1 . These results are in good agreement with the numbers obtained from particle in cell simulations describing the experiment. The linear scaling is also observed both at lower and higher plasma densities, at which smaller energy gains and accelerating gradients are measured. The systematic measurements of energy gain show the reproducibility and control of the acceleration process.
Source: New Journal of Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,610
Awards: G2371548206, G303061748, CERENKOV WAKES IN A MAGNETIZED PLASMA FOR HIGH POWER RADIATION GENERATION, G4654690619, G5570207115, NEW GRANT - EXPERIMENTAL, THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF PLASMA - CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS P.I. - JOSHI, Novel Tunable Light Source Based On A Laser Ionized Capacitor Array -- An Electromagnetic Accordion, APPLICATION OF PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS ON PARALLEL COMPUTERS TO LASER AND ELECTRLOS AANSPORT THROUGH PLASMAS UNDER, EXPERIMENTAL, THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF PLASMA BASED CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS, Full-Scale Three-Dimensional Numerical Experiments on High-Intensity Laser Matter Interactions, G969889393
OpenAlex ID: W2114870158