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First emittance measurement of the beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerated electron beam
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron beams to GeV energies within centimeter
distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, is indeed able to sustain huge electric fields that can
efficiently accelerate a trailing witness bunch, which was experimentally demonstrated on multiple
occasions. Thus, the main focus of the current research is being shifted towards achieving a high quality of
the beam after the plasma acceleration. In this paper we present a beam-driven plasma wakefield
acceleration experiment, where initially preformed high-quality witness beam was accelerated inside the
plasma and characterized. In this experiment the witness beam quality after the acceleration was maintained
on high level, with 0.2% final energy spread and 3.8 μm resulting normalized transverse emittance after the
acceleration. In this article, for the first time to our knowledge, the emittance of the plasma wakefield
accelerated beam was directly measure
First emittance measurement of the beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerated electron beam
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron beams to GeV
energies within centimetre distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, is
indeed able to sustain huge electric fields that can efficiently accelerate a
trailing witness bunch, which was experimentally demonstrated on multiple
occasions. Thus, the main focus of the current research is being shifted
towards achieving a high quality of the beam after the plasma acceleration. In
this letter we present beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment,
where initially preformed high-quality witness beam was accelerated inside the
plasma and characterized. In this experiment the witness beam quality after the
acceleration was maintained on high level, with final energy spread and
resulting normalized transverse emittance after the acceleration.
In this article, for the first time to our knowledge, the emittance of the PWFA
beam was directly measured
Energy spread minimization in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron bunches to
gigaelectronvolt energies within centimetre distances. The plasma, excited by a
driver pulse, generates large electric fields that can efficiently accelerate a
trailing witness bunch making possible the realization of laboratory-scale
applications ranging from high-energy colliders to ultra-bright light sources.
So far several experiments have demonstrated a significant acceleration but the
resulting beam quality, especially the energy spread, is still far from state
of the art conventional accelerators. Here we show the results of a beam-driven
plasma acceleration experiment where we used an electron bunch as a driver
followed by an ultra-short witness. The experiment demonstrates, for the first
time, an innovative method to achieve an ultra-low energy spread of the
accelerated witness of about 0.1%. This is an order of magnitude smaller than
what has been obtained so far. The result can lead to a major breakthrough
toward the optimization of the plasma acceleration process and its
implementation in forthcoming compact machines for user-oriented applications
First emittance measurement of the beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerated electron beam
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron beams to GeV energies within centimeter distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, is indeed able to sustain huge electric fields that can efficiently accelerate a trailing witness bunch, which was experimentally demonstrated on multiple occasions. Thus, the main focus of the current research is being shifted towards achieving a high quality of the beam after the plasma acceleration. In this paper we present a beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment, where initially preformed high-quality witness beam was accelerated inside the plasma and characterized. In this experiment the witness beam quality after the acceleration was maintained on high level, with 0.2% final energy spread and 3.8 μm resulting normalized transverse emittance after the acceleration. In this article, for the first time to our knowledge, the emittance of the plasma wakefield accelerated beam was directly measured
Energy spread minimization in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron
bunches to gigaelectronvolt energies within centimetre
distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, generates
large electric fields that can efficiently accelerate a trailing
witness bunch, enabling the realization of laboratory-scale
applications ranging from high-energy colliders to ultrabright
light sources. So far, several experiments have demonstrated
large accelerations but the resulting beam quality, particularly
the energy spread, is still far from state-of-the-art
conventional accelerators. Here we show the results of a
beam-driven plasma acceleration experiment where we used
an electron bunch as a driver followed by an ultrashort witness
bunch. By setting a positive energy chirp on the witness
bunch, its longitudinal phase space is rotated during acceleration,
resulting in an ultralow energy spread that is even
lower than the spread at the plasma entrance. This result will
significantly impact the optimization of the plasma acceleration
process and its implementation in forthcoming compact
machines for user-oriented applications