Acceleration of a Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma
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| author | Gessner, Spencer Adli, Erik Allen, James M. An, Weiming Clarke, Christine I. Clayton, Chris E. Corde, Sebastien Doche, Antoine Frederico, Joel Green, Selina Z. Hogan, Mark J. Joshi, Chan Lindstrom, Carl A. Litos, Michael Marsh, Kenneth A. Mori, Warren B. O'Shea, Brendan Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid Yakimenko, Vitaly |
| author_facet | Gessner, Spencer Adli, Erik Allen, James M. An, Weiming Clarke, Christine I. Clayton, Chris E. Corde, Sebastien Doche, Antoine Frederico, Joel Green, Selina Z. Hogan, Mark J. Joshi, Chan Lindstrom, Carl A. Litos, Michael Marsh, Kenneth A. Mori, Warren B. O'Shea, Brendan Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid Yakimenko, Vitaly |
| contents | Plasmas are a compelling medium for particle acceleration owing to their natural ability to sustain electric fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those available in conventional radio-frequency accelerators. Plasmas are also unique amongst accelerator technologies in that they respond differently to beams of opposite charge. The asymmetric response of a plasma to highly-relativistic electron and positron beams arises from the fact that plasmas are composed of light, mobile electrons and heavy, stationary ions. Hollow channel plasma acceleration is a technique for symmetrizing the response of the plasma, such that it works equally well for high-energy electron and positron beams. In the experiment described here, we demonstrate the generation of a positron beam-driven wake in an extended, annular plasma channel, and acceleration of a second trailing witness positron bunch by the wake. The leading bunch excites the plasma wakefield and loses energy to the plasma, while the witness bunch experiences an accelerating field and gains energy, thus providing a proof-of-concept for hollow channel acceleration of positron beams. At a bunch separation of 330 um, the accelerating gradient is 70 MV/m, the transformer ratio is 0.55, and the energy transfer efficiency is 18% for a drive-to-witness beam charge ratio of 5:1. |
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| spellingShingle | Acceleration of a Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma Gessner, Spencer Adli, Erik Allen, James M. An, Weiming Clarke, Christine I. Clayton, Chris E. Corde, Sebastien Doche, Antoine Frederico, Joel Green, Selina Z. Hogan, Mark J. Joshi, Chan Lindstrom, Carl A. Litos, Michael Marsh, Kenneth A. Mori, Warren B. O'Shea, Brendan Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid Yakimenko, Vitaly Accelerator Physics Plasmas are a compelling medium for particle acceleration owing to their natural ability to sustain electric fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those available in conventional radio-frequency accelerators. Plasmas are also unique amongst accelerator technologies in that they respond differently to beams of opposite charge. The asymmetric response of a plasma to highly-relativistic electron and positron beams arises from the fact that plasmas are composed of light, mobile electrons and heavy, stationary ions. Hollow channel plasma acceleration is a technique for symmetrizing the response of the plasma, such that it works equally well for high-energy electron and positron beams. In the experiment described here, we demonstrate the generation of a positron beam-driven wake in an extended, annular plasma channel, and acceleration of a second trailing witness positron bunch by the wake. The leading bunch excites the plasma wakefield and loses energy to the plasma, while the witness bunch experiences an accelerating field and gains energy, thus providing a proof-of-concept for hollow channel acceleration of positron beams. At a bunch separation of 330 um, the accelerating gradient is 70 MV/m, the transformer ratio is 0.55, and the energy transfer efficiency is 18% for a drive-to-witness beam charge ratio of 5:1. |
| title | Acceleration of a Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma |
| topic | Accelerator Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01700 |