Plasma wakefield acceleration at CLARA PARS

Hanahoe, K. and Mete, O. and Xia, G. and Angal-Kalinin, D. and Clarke, J. and Jones, J. and McKenzie, J.W. and Militsyn, B.L. and Williams, P. and Smith, J. and Welsch, C. and Wei, Y. and Hidding, B.; (2014) Plasma wakefield acceleration at CLARA PARS. In: IPAC2014: Proceedings of the 5th International Particle Accelerator Conference. JACoW, DEU, pp. 1544-1546. ISBN 9783954501328 (http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/IPAC2014/pa...)

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Abstract

PARS is a proposed Plasma Accelerator Research Station using the planned CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) electron linear accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. In this paper, two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations based on realistic CLARA beam parameters are presented. The results show that an accelerating gradient of 2.0 GV/m can be achieved over an accelerating length of at least 13 cm. Preliminary simulation results for a two bunch scheme show an energy gain of 70% over a length of 13 cm, giving an average accelerating gradient of 1.2 GeV/m.

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Hanahoe, K., Mete, O., Xia, G., Angal-Kalinin, D., Clarke, J., Jones, J., McKenzie, J.W., Militsyn, B.L., Williams, P., Smith, J., Welsch, C., Wei, Y. and Hidding, B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5827-0041;
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