TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced schemes for underdense plasma photocathode wakefield accelerators
T2 - pathways towards ultrahigh brightness electron beams
AU - Manahan, G. G.
AU - Habib, A. F.
AU - Scherkl, P.
AU - Ullmann, D.
AU - Beaton, A.
AU - Sutherland, A.
AU - Kirwan, G.
AU - Delinikolas, P.
AU - Heinemann, T.
AU - Altuijri, R.
AU - Knetsch, A.
AU - Karger, O.
AU - Cook, N. M.
AU - Bruhwiler, D. L.
AU - Sheng, Z.-M.
AU - Rosenzweig, J. B.
AU - Hidding, B.
PY - 2019/8/31
Y1 - 2019/8/31
N2 - The 'Trojan Horse' underdense plasma photocathode scheme applied to electron beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration has opened up a path which promises high controllability and tunability and to reach extremely good quality as regards emittance and five-dimensional beam brightness. This combination has the potential to improve the state-of-the-art in accelerator technology significantly. In this paper, we review the basic concepts of the Trojan Horse scheme and present advanced methods for tailoring both the injector laser pulses and the witness electron bunches and combine them with the Trojan Horse scheme. These new approaches will further enhance the beam qualities, such as transverse emittance and longitudinal energy spread, and may allow, for the first time, to produce ultrahigh six-dimensional brightness electron bunches, which is a necessary requirement for driving advanced radiation sources.
AB - The 'Trojan Horse' underdense plasma photocathode scheme applied to electron beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration has opened up a path which promises high controllability and tunability and to reach extremely good quality as regards emittance and five-dimensional beam brightness. This combination has the potential to improve the state-of-the-art in accelerator technology significantly. In this paper, we review the basic concepts of the Trojan Horse scheme and present advanced methods for tailoring both the injector laser pulses and the witness electron bunches and combine them with the Trojan Horse scheme. These new approaches will further enhance the beam qualities, such as transverse emittance and longitudinal energy spread, and may allow, for the first time, to produce ultrahigh six-dimensional brightness electron bunches, which is a necessary requirement for driving advanced radiation sources.
KW - plasma wakefield acceleration
KW - underdense plasma photocathode
KW - simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing
KW - energy spread compensation
U2 - 10.1098/rsta.2018.0182
DO - 10.1098/rsta.2018.0182
M3 - Article
VL - 377
JO - Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
SN - 1364-503X
IS - 2151
M1 - 0182
ER -