Plasma wakefield acceleration is the most promising acceleration technique known nowadays, able to provide very high accelerating Fields (10-100 GV m(-1)), to enabling acceleration of electrons to GeV energy in few centimetres. However, the quality of the electron bunches accelerated with this technique is still not comparable with that of conventional accelerators; radiofrequency-based accelerators, in fact, are limited in the accelerating field (10-100 MV m(-1)) requiring therefore kilometric distances to reach the GeV energies, but can provide very bright electron bunches. Combining high brightness electron bunches from conventional accelerators and high accelerating fields reachable with plasmas could be a good compromise allowing to further accelerate high brightness electron bunches coming from LINAC while preserving electron beam quality. Following the idea of plasma wave resonant excitation driven by a train of short bunches, we have started to study the requirements in terms of plasma for SPARC-LAB [1,2]. In particular, here we focus on the ionization process; we show a simplified model to study the evolution of plasma induced by discharge, very useful to design the discharge circuit able to fully ionize the gas and bring the plasma at the needed temperature and density.

Design of a plasma discharge circuit for particle wakefield acceleration / Anania, M. P; Chiadroni, E.; Cianchi, A.; DI GIOVENALE, Domenico; Ferrario, Massimo; Flora, F.; Gallerano, G. P.; Ghigo, A.; Marocchino, Alberto; Massimo, Francesco; Mostacci, Andrea; Mezi, L.; Musumeci, P.; Serio, M.. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 740:(2014), pp. 193-196. [10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.053]

Design of a plasma discharge circuit for particle wakefield acceleration

Chiadroni, E.;DI GIOVENALE, DOMENICO;FERRARIO, MASSIMO;MAROCCHINO, ALBERTO;MASSIMO, FRANCESCO;MOSTACCI, Andrea;
2014

Abstract

Plasma wakefield acceleration is the most promising acceleration technique known nowadays, able to provide very high accelerating Fields (10-100 GV m(-1)), to enabling acceleration of electrons to GeV energy in few centimetres. However, the quality of the electron bunches accelerated with this technique is still not comparable with that of conventional accelerators; radiofrequency-based accelerators, in fact, are limited in the accelerating field (10-100 MV m(-1)) requiring therefore kilometric distances to reach the GeV energies, but can provide very bright electron bunches. Combining high brightness electron bunches from conventional accelerators and high accelerating fields reachable with plasmas could be a good compromise allowing to further accelerate high brightness electron bunches coming from LINAC while preserving electron beam quality. Following the idea of plasma wave resonant excitation driven by a train of short bunches, we have started to study the requirements in terms of plasma for SPARC-LAB [1,2]. In particular, here we focus on the ionization process; we show a simplified model to study the evolution of plasma induced by discharge, very useful to design the discharge circuit able to fully ionize the gas and bring the plasma at the needed temperature and density.
2014
Circuit; Discharge; Discharge circuit; Particle wakefield acceleration; Plasma; Instrumentation; Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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Design of a plasma discharge circuit for particle wakefield acceleration / Anania, M. P; Chiadroni, E.; Cianchi, A.; DI GIOVENALE, Domenico; Ferrario, Massimo; Flora, F.; Gallerano, G. P.; Ghigo, A.; Marocchino, Alberto; Massimo, Francesco; Mostacci, Andrea; Mezi, L.; Musumeci, P.; Serio, M.. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 740:(2014), pp. 193-196. [10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.053]
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