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most citedAcceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch

262 citations · 1.2k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

physics.acc-ph2024

LCODE: Quasistatic code for simulating long-term evolution of three-dimensional plasma wakefields

I. Yu. Kargapolov, N. V. Okhotnikov, I. A. Shalimova +2

A recently developed three-dimensional version of the quasistatic code LCODE has a novel feature that enables high-accuracy simulations of the long-term evolution of waves in plasm…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 26 cited

Dissipation of electron-beam-driven plasma wakes

Rafal Zgadzaj, Zhengyan Li, M. C. Downer +10

Metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerators have imparted energy gain approaching 10 gigaelectronvolts to single nano-Coulomb electron bunches. To reach useful average currents, howe…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 5 cited

Accelerating field enhancement due to ion motion in plasma wakefield accelerators

V. A. Minakov, A. P. Sosedkin, K. V. Lotov

Ion motion in plasma wakefield accelerators can cause temporal increase of the longitudinal electric field shortly before the wave breaks. The increase is caused by re-distribution…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 13 cited

Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration in AWAKE

Edda Gschwendtner, Marlene Turner, the AWAKE Collaboration

In this article, we briefly summarize the experiments performed during the first Run of the Advanced Wakefield Experiment, AWAKE, at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Researc…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 8 cited

High-quality positrons from a multi-proton bunch driven hollow plasma wakefield accelerator

Y. Li, G. Xia, K. V. Lotov +2

By means of hollow plasma, multiple proton bunches work well in driving nonlinear plasma wakefields and accelerate electrons to energy frontier with preserved beam quality. However…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 83 cited

Experimental observation of proton bunch modulation in a plasma, at varying plasma densities

E. Adli, A. Ahuja, O. Apsimon +109

We give direct experimental evidence for the observation of the full transverse self-modulation of a relativistic proton bunch propagating through a dense plasma. The bunch exits t…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 80 cited

Experimental observation of plasma wakefield growth driven by the seeded self-modulation of a proton bunch

M. Turner, the AWAKE Collaboration

We measure the effects of transverse wakefields driven by a relativistic proton bunch in plasma with densities of and \unit[]{electrons/cm}…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 262 cited

Acceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch

The AWAKE Collaboration, E. Adli, A. Ahuja +91

High energy particle accelerators have been crucial in providing a deeper understanding of fundamental particles and the forces that govern their interactions. In order to increase…

physics.plasm-ph2018

Dissipation of weakly nonlinear wakefields due to ion motion

R. I. Spitsyn, I. V. Timofeev, A. P. Sosedkin +1

In an initially uniform plasma, the lifetime of a weakly nonlinear plasma wave excited by a short driver is limited by the ion dynamics. The wakefield contains a slowly varying rad…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 7 cited

Witness emittance growth caused by driver density fluctuations in plasma wakefield accelerators

V. A. Minakov, M. Tacu, A. P. Sosedkin +1

We discovered a novel effect that can cause witness emittance growth in plasma wakefield accelerators. The effect appears in linear or moderately nonlinear plasma waves. The witnes…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 3 cited

Amplitude enhancement of the self-modulated plasma wakefields

Y. Li, G. Xia, K. V. Lotov +3

Seeded Self-modulation (SSM) has been demonstrated to transform a long proton bunch into many equidistant micro-bunches (e.g., the AWAKE case), which then resonantly excite strong…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 9 cited

Response of narrow cylindrical plasmas to dense charged particle beams

A. A. Gorn, P. V. Tuev, A. V. Petrenko +2

By combining the linear theory and numerical simulations, we study the response of a radially bounded axisymmetric plasma to relativistic charged particle beams in a wide range of…

physics.plasm-ph2017

Plasma electron trapping in quasistatic simulations of plasma wakefield acceleration

P. V. Tuev, A. P. Sosedkin, K. V. Lotov

Plasma wakefield acceleration studies currently rely considerably on simulating this effect numerically using highly specialized software. Exorbitant computational difficulty of th…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 64 cited

AWAKE readiness for the study of the seeded self-modulation of a 400\,GeV proton bunch

P. Muggli, E. Adli, R. Apsimon +104

AWAKE is a proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. % We show that the experimental setup briefly described here is ready for systematic study of the seeded self-mod…

physics.acc-ph2017★ 4 cited

Multi-proton bunch driven hollow plasma wakefield acceleration in the nonlinear regime

Yangmei Li, Guoxing Xia, Konstantin V. Lotov +3

Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration has been demonstrated in simulations to be capable of accelerating particles to the energy frontier in a single stage, but its potential…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 2 cited

Proton Beam Defocusing as a Result of Self-Modulation in Plasma

Marlene Turner, Alexey Petrenko, Edda Gschwendtner +2

The AWAKE experiment will use a \SI{400}{GeV/c} proton beam with a longitudinal bunch length of to create and sustain GV/m plasma wakefields over 10 meters . A…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 10 cited

High quality electron beam generation in a proton-driven hollow plasma wakefield accelerator

Yangmei Li, Guoxing Xia, Konstantin V. Lotov +3

Simulations of proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerators have demonstrated substantially higher accelerating gradients compared to conventional accelerators and the viability of…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 98 cited

AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

E. Gschwendtner, E. Adli, L. Amorim +88

The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) aims at studying plasma wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by proton bunches. It is a…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 77 cited

Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept

A. Caldwell, E. Adli, L. Amorim +118

This report describes the conceptual steps in reaching the design of the AWAKE experiment currently under construction at CERN. We start with an introduction to plasma wakefield ac…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 19 cited

Numerical Studies of Electron Acceleration Behind Self-Modulating Proton Beam in Plasma with a Density Gradient

Alexey Petrenko, Konstantin Lotov, Alexander Sosedkin

Presently available high-energy proton beams in circular accelerators carry enough momentum to accelerate high-intensity electron and positron beams to the TeV energy scale over se…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 51 cited

LCODE: a parallel quasistatic code for computationally heavy problems of plasma wakefield acceleration

Alexander Sosedkin, Konstantin Lotov

LCODE is a freely-distributed quasistatic 2D3V code for simulating plasma wakefield acceleration, mainly specialized at resource-efficient studies of long-term propagation of ultra…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 32 cited

Electron trapping and acceleration by the plasma wakefield of a self-modulating proton beam

K. V. Lotov, A. P. Sosedkin, A. V. Petrenko +6

It is shown that co-linear injection of electrons or positrons into the wakefield of the self-modulating particle beam is possible and ensures high energy gain. The witness beam mu…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 17 cited

Parameter sensitivity of plasma wakefields driven by self-modulating proton beams

K. V. Lotov, V. A. Minakov, A. P. Sosedkin

The dependence of wakefield amplitude and phase on beam and plasma parameters is studied in the parameter area of interest for self-modulating proton beam-driven plasma wakefield a…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 21 cited

Long-term evolution of broken wakefields in finite radius plasmas

Konstantin Lotov, Alexander Sosedkin, Alexey Petrenko

A novel effect of fast heating and charging a finite-radius plasma is discovered in the context of plasma wakefield acceleration. As the plasma wave breaks, the most of its energy…