New regime of plasma wake field acceleration in the extreme blowout regime

Abstract

Three dimensional particle in cell simulations are used for studying proton driven plasma wake-field acceleration that uses a high-energy proton bunch to drive a plasma wake-field for electron beam acceleration. A new parameter regime was found which generates essentially constant electric field that is three orders magnitudes larger than that of AWAKE design, i.e. of the order of $2\times 10^3$ GV/m. This is achieved in the the extreme blowout regime, when number density of the driving proton bunch exceeds plasma electron number density 100 times.

The final accepted for publication version. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science with DOI (identifier) 10.1109/TPS.2018.2880602 in the next available issue. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1711.09766

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• AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN
• Relativistic electron beam driven longitudinal wake-wave breaking in a cold plasma
• The effect of a longitudinal density gradient on electron plasma wake field acceleration

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