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A proposed demonstration of an experiment of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration based on CERN SPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2012

G. XIA ,
R. ASSMANN ,
R. A. FONSECA ,
C. HUANG ,
W. MORI ,
L. O. SILVA ,
J. VIEIRA ,
F. ZIMMERMANN  and
P. MUGGLI
G. XIA
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany ([email protected])
R. ASSMANN
Affiliation:
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
R. A. FONSECA
Affiliation:
GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, IST, Lisboa, Portugal
C. HUANG
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
W. MORI
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
L. O. SILVA
Affiliation:
GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, IST, Lisboa, Portugal
J. VIEIRA
Affiliation:
GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, IST, Lisboa, Portugal
F. ZIMMERMANN
Affiliation:
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
P. MUGGLI
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany ([email protected])
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Abstract

The proton bunch-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has been proposed as an approach to accelerate an electron beam to the TeV energy regime in a single plasma section. An experimental program has been recently proposed to demonstrate the capability of proton-driven PWFA by using existing proton beams from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) accelerator complex. At present, a spare Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) tunnel, having a length of 600 m, could be used for this purpose. The layout of the experiment is introduced. Particle-in-cell simulation results based on realistic SPS beam parameters are presented. Simulations show that working in a self-modulation regime, the wakefield driven by an SPS beam can accelerate an externally injected ~10 MeV electrons to ~2 GeV in a 10-m plasma, with a plasma density of 7 × 1014 cm−3.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 78 , Special Issue 4: Progress in Laser Acceleration of Particles , August 2012 , pp. 347 - 353
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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