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von Boetticher A, Walczak R, Hooker SM. Modulational instability in large-amplitude linear laser wakefields. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:L023201. [PMID: 36932619 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.l023201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We investigate the growth of ion density perturbations in large-amplitude linear laser wakefields via two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Growth rates and wave numbers are found to be consistent with a longitudinal strong-field modulational instability. We examine the transverse dependence of the instability for a Gaussian wakefield envelope and show that growth rates and wave numbers can be maximized off axis. On-axis growth rates are found to decrease with increasing ion mass or electron temperature. These results are in close agreement with the dispersion relation of a Langmuir wave with an energy density that is large compared to the plasma thermal energy density. The implications for wakefield accelerators, in particular multipulse schemes, are discussed.
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- A von Boetticher
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HD, United Kingdom
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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The interaction of intense particle bunches with plasma can give rise to plasma wakes1,2 capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-metre electric fields3,4, which are orders of magnitude higher than provided by state-of-the-art radio-frequency technology5. Plasma wakefields can, therefore, strongly accelerate charged particles and offer the opportunity to reach higher particle energies with smaller and hence more widely available accelerator facilities. However, the luminosity and brilliance demands of high-energy physics and photon science require particle bunches to be accelerated at repetition rates of thousands or even millions per second, which are orders of magnitude higher than demonstrated with plasma-wakefield technology6,7. Here we investigate the upper limit on repetition rates of beam-driven plasma accelerators by measuring the time it takes for the plasma to recover to its initial state after perturbation by a wakefield. The many-nanosecond-level recovery time measured establishes the in-principle attainability of megahertz rates of acceleration in plasmas. The experimental signatures of the perturbation are well described by simulations of a temporally evolving parabolic ion channel, transferring energy from the collapsing wake to the surrounding media. This result establishes that plasma-wakefield modules could be developed as feasible high-repetition-rate energy boosters at current and future particle-physics and photon-science facilities.
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Mehrling TJ, Benedetti C, Schroeder CB, Esarey E, Leemans WP. Suppression of Beam Hosing in Plasma Accelerators with Ion Motion. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:264802. [PMID: 30636157 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.264802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Revised: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Mitigation of the beam hose instability in plasma-based accelerators is required for the realization of many applications, including plasma-based colliders. The hose instability is analyzed in the blowout regime including plasma ion motion, and ion motion is shown to suppress the hose instability by inducing a head-to-tail variation in the focusing force experienced by the beam. Hence, stable acceleration in plasma-based accelerators is possible, while, by use of proper bunch shaping, minimizing the energy spread and preserving the transverse beam emittance.
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- T J Mehrling
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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An W, Lu W, Huang C, Xu X, Hogan MJ, Joshi C, Mori WB. Ion Motion Induced Emittance Growth of Matched Electron Beams in Plasma Wakefields. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:244801. [PMID: 28665672 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.244801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Plasma-based acceleration is being considered as the basis for building a future linear collider. Nonlinear plasma wakefields have ideal properties for accelerating and focusing electron beams. Preservation of the emittance of nano-Coulomb beams with nanometer scale matched spot sizes in these wakefields remains a critical issue due to ion motion caused by their large space charge forces. We use fully resolved quasistatic particle-in-cell simulations of electron beams in hydrogen and lithium plasmas, including when the accelerated beam has different emittances in the two transverse planes. The projected emittance initially grows and rapidly saturates with a maximum emittance growth of less than 80% in hydrogen and 20% in lithium. The use of overfocused beams is found to dramatically reduce the emittance growth. The underlying physics that leads to the lower than expected emittance growth is elucidated.
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- Weiming An
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Vafaei-Najafabadi N, Marsh KA, Clayton CE, An W, Mori WB, Joshi C, Lu W, Adli E, Corde S, Litos M, Li S, Gessner S, Frederico J, Fisher AS, Wu Z, Walz D, England RJ, Delahaye JP, Clarke CI, Hogan MJ, Muggli P. Beam loading by distributed injection of electrons in a plasma wakefield accelerator. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:025001. [PMID: 24484020 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.025001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We show through experiments and supporting simulations that propagation of a highly relativistic and dense electron bunch through a plasma can lead to distributed injection of electrons, which depletes the accelerating field, i.e., beam loads the wake. The source of the injected electrons is ionization of the second electron of rubidium (Rb II) within the wake. This injection of excess charge is large enough to severely beam load the wake, and thereby reduce the transformer ratio T. The reduction of the average T with increasing beam loading is quantified for the first time by measuring the ratio of peak energy gain and loss of electrons while changing the beam emittance. Simulations show that beam loading by Rb II electrons contributes to the reduction of the peak accelerating field from its weakly loaded value of 43 GV/m to a strongly loaded value of 26 GV/m.
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- N Vafaei-Najafabadi
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA and Department of Physics and astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA and Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Physics, 80805 Munich, Germany
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Vieira J, Fonseca RA, Mori WB, Silva LO. Ion motion in self-modulated plasma wakefield accelerators. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 109:145005. [PMID: 23083254 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.145005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The effects of plasma ion motion in self-modulated plasma-based accelerators are examined. An analytical model describing ion motion in the narrow beam limit is developed and confirmed through multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the ion motion can lead to the early saturation of the self-modulation instability and to the suppression of the accelerating gradients. This can reduce the total energy that can be transformed into kinetic energy of accelerated particles. For the parameters of future proton-driven plasma accelerator experiments, the ion dynamics can have a strong impact. Possible methods to mitigate the effects of the ion motion in future experiments are demonstrated.
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- J Vieira
- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
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Schroeder CB, Benedetti C, Esarey E, Grüner FJ, Leemans WP. Coupled beam hose and self-modulation instabilities in overdense plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:026402. [PMID: 23005864 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.026402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Transverse stability of the drive beam is critical to plasma wakefield accelerators. A long, relativistic particle beam propagating in an overdense plasma is subject to beam envelope modulation and centroid displacement (hosing) instabilities. Coupled equations for the beam centroid and envelope are derived and solved. It is shown that the hosing growth rate is comparable to self-modulation, and coupling of the self-modulation enhances beam hosing and induces harmonic content. Large amounts of hosing significantly alters the structure of the plasma wakefields.
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- C B Schroeder
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Gholizadeh R, Katsouleas T, Muggli P, Huang C, Mori W. Preservation of beam emittance in the presence of ion motion in future high-energy plasma-wakefield-based colliders. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:155001. [PMID: 20481996 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.155001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The preservation of beam quality in a plasma wakefield accelerator driven by ultrahigh intensity and ultralow emittance beams, characteristic of future particle colliders, is a challenge. The electric field of these beams leads to plasma ions motion, resulting in a nonlinear focusing force and emittance growth of the beam. We propose to use an adiabatic matching section consisting of a short plasma section with a decreasing ion mass to allow for the beam to remain matched to the focusing force. We use analytical models and numerical simulations to show that the emittance growth can be significantly reduced.
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- R Gholizadeh
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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Muggli P, Blue BE, Clayton CE, Decker FJ, Hogan MJ, Huang C, Joshi C, Katsouleas TC, Lu W, Mori WB, O'Connell CL, Siemann RH, Walz D, Zhou M. Halo formation and emittance growth of positron beams in plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:055001. [PMID: 18764398 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.055001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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An ultrarelativistic 28.5 GeV, 700-microm-long positron bunch is focused near the entrance of a 1.4-m-long plasma with a density n(e) between approximately equal to 10(13) and approximately equal to 5 x 10(14) cm(-3). Partial neutralization of the bunch space charge by the mobile plasma electrons results in a reduction in transverse size by a factor of approximately equal to 3 in the high emittance plane of the beam approximately equal to 1 m downstream from the plasma exit. As n(e) increases, the formation of a beam halo containing approximately 40% of the total charge is observed, indicating that the plasma focusing force is nonlinear. Numerical simulations confirm these observations. The bunch with an incoming transverse size ratio of approximately 3 and emittance ratio of approximately 5 suffers emittance growth and exits the plasma with approximately equal sizes and emittances.
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- P Muggli
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Ragheb MS. Plasma cell adaptation to enhance particle acceleration. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2008; 79:063302. [PMID: 18601400 DOI: 10.1063/1.2912953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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A plasma study is performed in order to construct a cell for plasma acceleration purpose. As well, a multicell design is introduced for the injection of beam driver application. The suggested idea is experimentally demonstrated for two plasma cell configuration. The preformed plasma is obtained by a symmetrically driven capacitive audio frequency discharge. It is featured by its moderate pressure of 0.1-0.2 Torr, low consumption power of 130 W maximum, low discharge voltage and frequency up to 950 V and 20 kHz, respectively, and high plasma density from 10(11) to 10(15) cm(-3). The electron temperature obtained by Langmuir double probe varies from 1 up to 16 eV. It is observed that the increases of the discharge voltage and frequency enlarge the plasma parameters to their maximum values. The plasma cell filled with different gases demonstrates that the Ar and He gases manifest the highest ionization efficiency exceeding 100% at 950 V and 20 kHz. The formed plasma is cold; its density is uniform and stable along the positive column for long competitive lifetime. Showing that it follows the conditions to enhance particle acceleration and in conjunction with its periphery devices form a plasma cell that could be extended to serve this purpose. Demonstrating that an injected electron beam into the extended preformed plasma could follow, to long distance, a continuous trajectory of uniform density. Such plasma generated by H(2) or Ar gases is suggested to be used, respectively, for low-density or higher density beam driver.
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- M S Ragheb
- Accelerators Department, Nuclear Research Center, AEA, Cairo, Egypt
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