Speaker
Susanne Schoebel
(HZDR)
Description
Beam driven wakefield acceleration is a promissing method to generate high quality
electron beams. Up to now beam driven wakefield acceleration experiments have been
performed at large RF-accelerator facilities. Laser wakefield acceleration offers
high peak current electron beams which potentially can be used to drive plasma
wakefields. Here we show the generation of plasma waves in the second jet of a hybrid
LPWFA (Laser Particle Wakefield Acceleration) by using few cycle probing. We observed
a correlation between the length of the plasma wave cavities and the energy loss of
the driver beam.
Primary author
Susanne Schoebel
(HZDR)
Co-authors
Dr
Alberto Martinez de la Ossa
(DESY)
Dr
Alexander Debus
(a.debus@hzdr.de)
Mr
Alexander Köhler
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
Dr
Andreas Döpp
(LMU Munich)
Dr
Arie Irman
(HZDR)
Jurjen Couperus Cabadağ
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
Dr
Olena Kononenko
(LOA)
Mr
Omid Zarini
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
Ralph Assmann
(DESY)
Mr
Richard Pausch
(HZDR)
Prof.
Stefan Karsch
(LMU Munich)
Prof.
Sébastien Corde
(LOA)
Mr
Thomas Heinemann
(DESY / University of Strathclyde)
Mr
Thomas Kurz
(HZDR)
Prof.
Ulrich Schramm
(HZDR)
Dr
Yenyu Chang
(HZDR)