Two-stage laser-driven plasma acceleration with external injection for EuPRAXIA

Svystun, E N and Assmann, R W and Dorda, U and Ferran Pousa, A and Heinemann, T and Marchetti, B and Martinez de la Ossa, A and Walker, P A and Weikum, M K and Zhu, J (2018) Two-stage laser-driven plasma acceleration with external injection for EuPRAXIA. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1067 (4). 042011. ISSN 1742-6588 (https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1067/4/042011)

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Abstract

The EuPRAXIA (European Particle Research Accelerator with excellence In Applications) project aims at producing a conceptual design for the worldwide plasma-based accelerator facility, capable of delivering multi-GeV electron beams with high quality. This accelerator facility will be used for various user applications such as compact X-ray sources for medical imaging and high-energy physics detector tests. EuPRAXIA explores different approaches to plasma acceleration techniques. Laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration with external injection of an RF-generated electron beam is one of the basic research directions of EuPRAXIA. We present studies of electron beam acceleration to GeV energies by a two-stage laser wakefield acceleration with external injection from an RF accelerator. Electron beam injection, acceleration and extraction from the plasma, using particle-in-cell simulations, are investigated.

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Svystun, E N, Assmann, R W, Dorda, U, Ferran Pousa, A, Heinemann, T, Marchetti, B, Martinez de la Ossa, A, Walker, P A, Weikum, M K ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2324-078X and Zhu, J;
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