Electron plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) mechanism is a promising non conventional acceleration scheme. Nonetheless further investigation is still needed to fully uncover the instability mechanisms so to mitigate them and make PWFA an effective tool. This work focuses in this direction, we discuss the necessity to use well matched driver bunches to further mitigate witness instabilities. Specifically we propose to inject driver bunches with larger emittance than the matched one (overcompressed bunch) so to let the system reach the matching condition by itself. This preliminary results lead us to the following consideration: while a limited number of cases can be studied with a particle-in-cell code, we understand the necessity for fast systematic analysis: we briefly introduce the hybrid code Architect.
Marocchino, A., Massimo, F., Sinigardi, S., Mostacci, A., Chiadroni, E. (2015). Study of plasma wakefield acceleration mechanism for emittance dominated regimes via hybrid and pic simulations. European Physical Society (EPS).
Study of plasma wakefield acceleration mechanism for emittance dominated regimes via hybrid and pic simulations
SINIGARDI, STEFANO;
2015
Abstract
Electron plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) mechanism is a promising non conventional acceleration scheme. Nonetheless further investigation is still needed to fully uncover the instability mechanisms so to mitigate them and make PWFA an effective tool. This work focuses in this direction, we discuss the necessity to use well matched driver bunches to further mitigate witness instabilities. Specifically we propose to inject driver bunches with larger emittance than the matched one (overcompressed bunch) so to let the system reach the matching condition by itself. This preliminary results lead us to the following consideration: while a limited number of cases can be studied with a particle-in-cell code, we understand the necessity for fast systematic analysis: we briefly introduce the hybrid code Architect.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.