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most citedTransition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

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physics.plasm-ph2025

Density and Particle Sourcing Optimization in a Helicon Plasma Source Prototype For Wakefield Accelerator Applications

Michael Zepp, Marcel Granetzny, Oliver Schmitz

Helicon plasmas are being considered as plasma sources for wakefield accelerators, subject to strict density requirements. We present various mechanisms to increase axial density h…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 4 cited

Exploration of Helicon Plasmas for Wakefield Accelerators at the Madison AWAKE Prototype

Marcel Granetzny, Barret Elward, Michael Zepp +2

Plasma wakefield accelerators have the potential to revolutionize particle physics by providing lepton collision energies orders of magnitude beyond current technology. Crucially,…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Computational and Analytical Optimization of Helicon Antennas with a Fast Full Wave Solver Exploiting Azimuthal Fourier Decomposition

Marcel Granetzny, Oliver Schmitz

Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWA), such as AWAKE, require homogenous high-density plasmas. The Madison AWAKE Prototype (MAP) has been built to create a uniform argon plasma in th…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Hosing of a long relativistic particle bunch in plasma

T. Nechaeva, L. Verra, J. Pucek +4

Experimental results show that hosing of a long particle bunch in plasma can be induced by wakefields driven by a short, misaligned preceding bunch. Hosing develops in the plane of…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Development of the Self-Modulation Instability of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma

L. Verra, S. Wyler, T. Nechaeva +7

Self-modulation is a beam-plasma instability that is useful to drive large-amplitude wakefields with bunches much longer than the plasma skin depth. We present experimental results…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 9 cited

Preference of Right-Handed Whistler Modes and Helicon Discharge Directionality due to Plasma Density Gradients

Marcel Granetzny, Oliver Schmitz, Michael Zepp

Whistlers are magnetized plasma waves in planetary magnetospheres. Bounded whistlers, known as helicons, can create high-density laboratory plasmas. We demonstrate reversal of the…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 29 cited

Controlled Growth of the Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma

L. Verra

A long, narrow, relativistic charged particle bunch propagating in plasma is subject to the self-modulation (SM) instability. We show that SM of a proton bunch can be seeded by the…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Simulation and Experimental Study of Proton Bunch Self-Modulation in Plasma with Linear Density Gradients

P. I. Morales Guzmán, P. Muggli, R. Agnello +88

We present numerical simulations and experimental results of the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in a plasma with linear density gradients along the beam path. Simulation re…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 35 cited

Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

F. Batsch, P. Muggli, R. Agnello +94

We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally t…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 4 cited

Experimental study of extended timescale dynamics of a plasma wakefield driven by a self-modulated proton bunch

J. Chappell, E. Adli, R. Agnello +96

Plasma wakefield dynamics over timescales up to 800 ps, approximately 100 plasma periods, are studied experimentally at the Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE). The development o…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 17 cited

Proton Bunch Self-Modulation in Plasma with Density Gradient

F. Braunmüller, T. Nechaeva, AWAKE Collboration

We study experimentally the effect of linear plasma density gradients on the self-modulation of a 400\,GeV proton bunch. Results show that a positive/negative gradient in/decreases…