Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of Electrons in Lithium and Rubidium Plasmas

ORAL

Abstract

We report on the plasma wakefield experiments performed at the newly commissioned FACET facility at the SLAC National Laboratory. A beam of 2x10$^{10}$ 20.5 GeV electrons was focused through a 20-40 cm long vapor column of lithium or rubidium produced in a heat-pipe oven. The electron beam tunnel-ionized the metal vapor and then drove a large amplitude plasma wake. The resulting interaction was investigated for different plasma densities and beam parameters. The primary diagnostic was the energy gain and loss features observed using an imaging magnetic spectrometer. Preliminary data and a comparison between acceleration in rubidium and lithium plasmas will be presented.

*This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-0936266 (UCLA) and the Department Of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-92ER40727 (UCLA) and DE-AC02-76SF00515 (SLAC).

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Authors

  • Navid Vafaei

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Ken Marsh

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Christopher Clayton

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA

  • Chan Joshi

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA

  • Erik Adli

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Sebastien Corde

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Mike Litos

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Selina Li

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Spencer Gessner

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Joel Frederico

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Mark Hogan

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Dieter Walz

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Joel England

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Weiming An

    • UCLA
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

  • Wei Lu

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

  • Warren Mori

    • UCLA
    • (UCLA)
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • University of California at Los Angeles
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles

  • Patric Muggli

    • Max Planck Institute for Physics
    • MPI
    • Max Plank Institute for Physics, Munich
    • Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany

  • Jean-Pierre Delahaye

    • CERN