Particle-in-cell simulations were performed by using PARMELA to characterise an electron injector with a booster linac for the AWAKE project in order to provide the baseline specifications required by the plasma wakefield experiments. Tolerances and errors were investigated. A 3 GHz travelling wave structure designed by using CST code. Particles were tracked by using the field maps acquired from these electromagnetic simulations. These results are pre- sented in comparison with the generic accelerating structure model within PARMELA.
@article{arxiv.1505.02621,
title = {Modeling of an Electron Injector for the AWAKE Project},
author = {O. Mete and G. Xia and R. Apsimon and G. Burt and S. Doebert and R. Fiorito and C. Welsch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02621},
year = {2015}
}