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Multi-GeV Electron Combs from a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Chaojie Zhang, Douglas Storey, Alexander Knetsch +16
Plasma accelerators now produce GeV-class electron beams with brightness and stability sufficient to drive free-electron lasers. Beyond this, they possess a unique yet largely unex…
FACET2-S2E: Start-to-end simulations of the FACET-II beamline
Nathan Majernik, Frederick Cropp, Claudio Emma +1
FACET2-S2E is a Python package for start-to-end simulations of the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests-II (FACET-II), a US Department of Energy National User Facil…
First results from the E302 efficiency$\unicode{x2013}$instability experiment at the FACET-II facility
O. G. Finnerud, E. Adli, R. Ariniello +18
The beam-breakup (BBU) instability in plasma accelerators is seeded by a transverse offset between the driver and a trailing bunch. The BBU instability induces oscillations in the…
Nanometer-scale pre-bunched electron beams generated from all-optical plasma-based acceleration
Zhenan Wang, Zewei Xu, Qianyi Ma +7
High-quality and prebunched electron beams can produce coherent x-rays with high intensity and narrow bandwidth, which is essential for modern light sources. An all-optical scheme…
Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider
Spencer Gessner, Jens Osterhoff, Carl A. Lindstrøm +198
This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and…
A fully plasma based electron injector for a linear collider or XFEL
Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Xinlu L. Xu, Fei Li +2
We demonstrate through high-fidelity particle-in-cell simulations a simple approach for efficiently generating 20+ GeV electron beams with the necessary charge, energy spread, and…
Implementation of a Mesh refinement algorithm into the quasi-static PIC code QuickPIC
Q. Su, F. Li, W. An +8
Plasma-based acceleration (PBA) has emerged as a promising candidate for the accelerator technology used to build a future linear collider and/or an advanced light source. In PBA,…
Correlations between X-rays, Visible Light and Drive-Beam Energy Loss Observed in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments at FACET-II
Chaojie Zhang, Doug Storey, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +26
This study documents several correlations observed during the first run of the plasma wakefield acceleration experiment E300 conducted at FACET-II, using a single drive electron bu…
On the generation of ultra-bright and low energy spread electron beams in laser wakefield acceleration in a uniform plasma
Xinlu Xu, Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Jiaxin Liu +5
The quality of electron beams produced from plasma-based accelerators, i.e., normalized brightness and energy spread, has made transformative progress in the past several decades i…
Ultra-compact attosecond X-ray free-electron lasers utilizing unique beams from plasma-based acceleration and an optical undulator
Xinlu Xu, Jiaxin Liu, Thamine Dalichaouch +7
Accelerator-based X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are the latest addition to the revolutionary tools of discovery for the 21st century. The two major components of an XFEL are a…
Optimization of transformer ratio and beam loading in a plasma wakefield accelerator with a structure-exploiting algorithm
Q. Su, J. Larson, T. N. Dalichaouch +8
Plasma-based acceleration has emerged as a promising candidate as an accelerator technology for a future linear collider or a next-generation light source. For a linear collider, t…
Ultra-Bright Electron Bunch Injection in a Plasma Wakefield Driven by a Superluminal Flying Focus Electron Beam
Fei Li, Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Jacob R. Pierce +5
We propose a new method for self-injection of high-quality electron bunches in the plasma wakefield structure in the blowout regime utilizing a "flying focus" produced by a drive b…
A multi-sheath model for highly nonlinear plasma wakefields
Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Xinlu Xu, Adam Tableman +3
An improved description for nonlinear plasma wakefields with phase velocities near the speed of light is presented and compared against fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations.…
On numerical errors to the fields surrounding a relativistically moving particle in PIC codes
Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, Frank S. Tsung +7
The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to…
Generating high quality ultra-relativistic electron beams using an evolving electron beam driver
Thamine Dalichaouch, Xinlu Xu, Fei Li +4
A new method of controllable injection to generate high quality electron bunches in the nonlinear blowout regime driven by electron beams is proposed and demonstrated using particl…
High quality electron bunch generation using a longitudinal density-tailored plasma-based accelerator in the three-dimensional blowout regime
X. L. Xu, F. Li, W. An +4
The generation of very high quality electron bunches (high brightness and low energy spread) from a plasma-based accelerator in the three-dimensional blowout regime using self-inje…
Controlling the Numerical Cerenkov Instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction
Fei Li, Peicheng Yu, Xinlu Xu +10
In this paper we present a customized finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) Maxwell solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm. The solver is customized to effectively eliminat…