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We report here an exact analytical travelling wave solution for nonlinear electron plasma wave excited by an intense ultra-relativistic proton beam. It brings out the underlying physics of longitudinal electric field characteristics of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Mithun Karmakar , Bhavesh Patel , Nikhil Chakrabarti , Sudip Sengupta

Self modulated dynamics of a relativistic charged particle beam is reviewed within the context of the theory of plasma wake field excitation. The self-consistent description of the beam dynamics is provided by coupling the Vlasov equation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 T. Akhter , R. Fedele , S. De Nicola , F. Tanjia , D. Jovanovic , A. Mannan

We expand on the material that was published in the previous Proceedings of the CERN Accelerator School on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration. The material focused on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration in the short, narrow bunch regime. After a brief…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Patric Muggli

We briefly give some of the characteristics of the beam-driven, plasma-based particle accelerator known as the plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA). We also mention some of the major results that have been obtained since the birth of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 P. Muggli

In a plasma wakefield accelerator driven by a train of short particle bunches, it is possible to locally increase the acceleration rate by introducing a small negative gradient of the plasma density. A regime is possible in which the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 N. V. Okhotnikov , K. V. Lotov

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a novel acceleration technique with promising prospects for both particle colliders and light sources. However, PWFA research has so far been limited to a few large-scale accelerator facilities…

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a groundbreaking technique for accelerating particles, capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-meter accelerating fields. Understanding the physical mechanisms governing the recovery of plasma accelerating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 G. Parise , A. Cianchi , M. Galletti , F. Guglietta , R. Pompili , A. R. Rossi , M. Sbragaglia , D. Simeoni

Shot-to-shot fluctuations in electron beams from laser wakefield accelerators present a significant challenge for applications. Here, we show that instead of using such fluctuating beams directly, employing them to drive a plasma…

The effect of nonlinearity on plasma wake wave excited by a relativistic cylindrical charged bunch is investigated. It is shown that owing to the nonlinearity the amplitude of wake wave gets modulated in the longitudinal direction. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Khachatryan , S. S. Elbakian

The spectroscopy of betatron radiation from the focusing plasma column can work as a powerful non-invasive beam diagnostic method for plasma wakefield acceleration experiments such as the AWAKE. In this paper, the effects of radial size…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Linbo Liang , Guoxing Xia , Hossein Saberi , John Patrick Farmer , Alexander Pukhov

Plasma-Based Acceleration (PBA) has been demonstrated using laser, electron, and proton drivers. However, significant challenges remain in achieving high efficiency, stable acceleration, and scalable energy gain. Heavy ion beam drivers,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jiangdong Li , Jiancheng Yang , Guoxing Xia , Jie Liu , Ruihu Zhu , Xiangwen Qiao

Ion motion in plasma wakefield accelerators can cause temporal increase of the longitudinal electric field shortly before the wave breaks. The increase is caused by re-distribution of the wave energy in transverse direction and may be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 V. A. Minakov , A. P. Sosedkin , K. V. Lotov

Raman backscattered radiation of intense laser pulses in plasma is investigated for a wide range of intensities relevant to laser wakefield acceleration. The weakly nonlinear dispersion relation for Raman backscattering predicts an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 D. Kaganovich , B. Hafizi , J. P. Palastro , A. Ting , M. H. Helle , Y. -H. Chen , T. G. Jones , D. F. Gordon

We introduce a plasma wakefield acceleration scheme capable of boosting initially subrelativistic particles to relativistic velocities within millimeter-scale distances. A subluminal light pulse drives a wake whose velocity is continuously…

We study the long-term evolution (LTE) of plasma wakefields over multiple plasma-electron periods and few plasma-ion periods, much less than a recombination time. The evolution and relaxation of such a wakefield-perturbed plasma over these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Aakash A. Sahai , T. C. Katsouleas , F. S. Tsung , W. B. Mori

An active plasma lens focuses the beam in both the horizontal and vertical planes simultaneously using a magnetic field generated by a discharge current through the plasma. A beam size of 5--10 $\mu$m can be achieved within a short distance…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 S. -Y. Kim , K. Moon , M. Chung , K. N. Sjobak , E. Adli , S. Doebert , M. Dayyani , E. S. Yoon , I. Nam , G. Hahn

Particle beams with highly asymmetric emittance ratios are expected at the interaction point of high energy colliders. These asymmetric beams can be used to drive high gradient wakefields in dielectrics and plasma. In the case of plasma,…

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a promising method for reducing the scale and cost of future electron-positron collider experiments by using shorter plasma sections to enhance beam energy. While electron acceleration has already…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Meiyu Si , Yongsheng Huang

A new scheme of proton acceleration from a laser-driven near-critical-density plasma is proposed. Plasma with a tailored density profile allows a two-stage acceleration of protons. The protons are pre-accelerated in the laser-driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Y. Wan , I. A. Andriyash , J. F. Hua , C. -H. Pai , W. Lu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi , V. Malka

The wakefield and stopping power of an ion-beam pulse moving in magnetized plasmas are investigated by particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The effects of beam velocity and density on the wake and stopping power are discussed. In the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Xiao-ying Zhao , Hong-Peng Xu , Yong-tao Zhao , Xin Qi , Lei Yang