Hybrid LWFA-PWFA staging as a beam energy and brightness transformer: conceptual design and simulations

de la Ossa, A. Martinez; Assmann, R. W.; Bussmann, M.; Corde, S.; Cabadag, J. P. Couperus; Debus, A.; Doepp, A.; Pousa, A. Ferran; Gilljohann, M. F.; Heinemann, T.; Hidding, B.; Irman, A.; Karsch, S.; Kononenko, O.; Kurz, T.; Osterhoff, J.; Pausch, R.; Schoebel, S. und Schramm, U. (2019): Hybrid LWFA-PWFA staging as a beam energy and brightness transformer: conceptual design and simulations. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 377, No. 2151, 20180175

Abstract

We present a conceptual design for a hybrid laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (LWFA) to beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA). In this set-up, the output beams from an LWFA stage are used as input beams of a new PWFA stage. In the PWFA stage, a new witness beam of largely increased quality can be produced and accelerated to higher energies. The feasibility and the potential of this concept is shown through exemplary particle-in-cell simulations. In addition, preliminary simulation results for a proof-of-concept experiment in Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendmi (Germany) are shown. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Directions in particle beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration'.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• ISSN: 1364-503X
• Language: English