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Linear colliders are an attractive platform to explore high-precision physics of newly discovered particles. The recent significant progress in advanced accelerator technologies has motivated their applications to colliders which has been…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Francois Lemery , Gerard Andonian , Steffen Doebert , Gwanghui Ha , Xueying Lu , John Power , Eric Wisniewski

We presented a novel concept of longitudinal bunch train compression capable of manipulating relativistic electron beam in range of hundreds of meters. This concept has the potential to compress the electron beam generated by conditional…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 An Li , Jiaru Shi , Hao Zha , Qiang Gao , Liuyuan Zhou , Huaibi Chen

Laser-plasma accelerators represent a promising technology for future compact accelerating systems, enabling the acceleration of tens of pC to above $1\,$GeV over just a few centimeters. Nonetheless, these devices currently lack the…

A scheme for fast, compact, and controllable acceleration of heavy particles in vacuum is proposed, in which two counterpropagating lasers with variable frequencies drive a beat-wave structure with variable phase velocity, thus allowing for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Peano , J. Vieira , L. O. Silva , R. Mulas , G. Coppa

The control of beam phase relative to the accelerating RF field within a superconducting cavity is important in many accelerator applications and is of particular importance for a free electron laser facility. As standard practice, the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 L. Shi , N. Baboi , R. M. Jones

To calculate nonlinear transport of space charge dominated beam in 6D phase spaces, a computer code package LEADS-v5 (Linear and Electrostatic Accelerator Dynamics Simulations) has been developed. The codes calculate particle motions in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Jian-Qin Lu

Free Electron Lasers (FEL) are commonly regarded as the potential key application of laser wakefield accelerators (LWFA). It has been found that electron bunches exiting from state-of-the-art LWFAs exhibit a normalized 6-dimensional beam…

Controlling the intensity distribution of laser pulses in the focal region is essential for optimizing optically generated plasma waveguides and enabling advanced plasma acceleration techniques, including dephasingless wakefield…

An enhanced ionization injection scheme using a tightly focused laser pulse with intensity near the ionization potential to trigger the injection process in a mismatched pre-plasma channel has been proposed and examined via…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 F. Li , C. J. Zhang , Y. Wan , Y. P. Wu , J. F. Hua , C. H. Pai , W. Lu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi

We access the possibility of using the conventional RF accelerator as an injector for the plasma driven wakefield accelerator. Conventional accelerators deliver high quality beams with low emittance and low energy spread. Once injected into…

Plasma driven particle accelerators represent the future of compact accelerating machines and Free Electron Lasers are going to benefit from these new technologies. One of the main issue of this new approach to FEL machines is the design of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Rossetti Conti , A. Bacci , A. Giribono , V. Petrillo , A. R. Rossi , L. Serafini , C. Vaccarezza

A compact accelerator design for irradiation purposes is being proposed at KEK. This design targets an energy of 10 MeV and a current of 50 mA. Current design includes a 100 kV thermionic DC electron gun with an RF grid, 1-cell…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Olga Tanaka , Yosuke Honda , Masahiro Yamamoto , Tomohiro Yamada , Hiroshi Sakai

High-power laser technologies are essential in precision manufacturing, defense, and scientific research, where accurate control of the beam profile is paramount. Although several beam-shaping methods exist, they often face implementation…

One of the most robust methods, demonstrated up to date, of accelerating electron beams by laser-plasma sources is the utilization of plasma channels generated by the capillary discharges. These channels, i.e., plasma columns with a minimum…

We introduce a simplified model of the electron-beam/plasma system to model the electrical breakdown caused by the inductive electric field created by a rapidly rising electron beam current. The rigid-beam model is a reduction to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 S. B. Swanekamp , A. S. Richardson , Tz. B. Petrova , P. E. Adamson

Our objective will be to integrate ML into Fermilab accelerator operations and furthermore provide an accessible framework which can also be used by a broad range of other accelerator systems with dynamic tuning needs. We will develop of…

High-quality and prebunched electron beams can produce coherent x-rays with high intensity and narrow bandwidth, which is essential for modern light sources. An all-optical scheme based on plasma-based acceleration to produce bright…

Direct laser acceleration has proven to be an efficient source of high-charge electron bunches and high brilliance X-rays. However, an analytical description of the acceleration in the interaction with varying plasma density targets is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Robert Babjak , Bertrand Martinez , Miroslav Krus , Marija Vranic

We present a theoretical investigation of the chromatic dynamics of the witness beam within a plasma based accelerator. We derive the single particle motion of an electron in an ion column within a nonlinear, blowout wake including…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 R. Ariniello , C. E. Doss , V. Lee , C. Hansel , J. R. Cary , M. D. Litos

We discuss recent developments and challenges of beam dynamics in Dielectric Laser Acceleration (DLA), for both high and low energy electron beams. Starting from ultra-low emittance nanotip sources the paper follows the beam path of a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 U. Niedermayer , K. Leedle , P. Musumeci , S. A. Schmid