PARS (Plasma Acceleration Research Station) is an electron beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration test stand proposed for VELA/CLARA facility in Daresbury Laboratory. In order to optimise various operational configurations, 2D numerical studies were performed by using VSIM for a range of parameters such as bunch length, radius, plasma density and positioning of the bunches with respect to each other for the two-beam acceleration scheme. In this paper, some of these numerical studies and considered measurement methods are presented.
@article{arxiv.1505.02631,
title = {Design Studies and Commissioning Plans for PARS Experimental Program},
author = {O. Mete and K. Hanahoe and G. Xia and M. Dover and M. Wigram and J. Wright and J. Zhang and J. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02631},
year = {2015}
}