Abstract
The EuPRAXIA (European Particle Research Accelerator with excellence In Applications) project aims at producing a conceptual design for the worldwide plasma-based accelerator facility, capable of delivering multi-GeV electron beams with high quality. This accelerator facility will be used for various user applications such as compact X-ray sources for medical imaging and high-energy physics detector tests. EuPRAXIA explores different approaches to plasma acceleration techniques. Laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration with external injection of an RF-generated electron beam is one of the basic research directions of EuPRAXIA. We present studies of electron beam acceleration to GeV energies by a two-stage laser wakefield acceleration with external injection from an RF accelerator. Electron beam injection, acceleration and extraction from the plasma, using particle-in-cell simulations, are investigated.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 042011 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
Volume | 1067 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Oct 2018 |
Event | 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC 2018 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 29 Apr 2018 → 4 May 2018 |
Funding
We would like to acknowledge the OSIRIS Consortium (IST/UCLA) for providing access to the OSIRIS code. This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement № 653782.
Keywords
- EuPRAXIA project
- plasma-based accelerator
- laser wakefield acceleration