5–7 Mar 2019
Helmholtz Institute Jena
Europe/Berlin timezone
5. MT days 2019

Observation of beam driven plasma waves in a hybrid LPWFA

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20m
various rooms, please see programme (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

various rooms, please see programme

Helmholtz Institute Jena

Max-Wien-Platz 1 07743 Jena
Poster ARD

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

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)

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