Experimental Observation of Plasma Wakefield Growth Driven by the Seeded Self-Modulation of a Proton Bunch

AWAKE Collaboration (2019) Experimental Observation of Plasma Wakefield Growth Driven by the Seeded Self-Modulation of a Proton Bunch. Physical review letters, 122 (5). ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We measure the effects of transverse wakefields driven by a relativistic proton bunch in plasma with densities of 2.1 x 10(14) and 7.7 x 10(14) electrons/cm(3). We show that these wakefields periodically defocus the proton bunch itself, consistently with the development of the seeded self-modulation process. We show that the defocusing increases both along the bunch and along the plasma by using time resolved and time-integrated measurements of the proton bunch transverse distribution. We evaluate the transverse wakefield amplitudes and show that they exceed their seed value (<15 MV/m) and reach over 300 MV/m. All these results confirm the development of the seeded self-modulation process, a necessary condition for external injection of low energy and acceleration of electrons to multi-GeV energy levels.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
Subjects:
?? ATOMIC PHYSICSPHYSICSDEFOCUSDEFOCUSINGINTEGRATED MEASUREMENTSPLASMA WAKEFIELDSELF MODULATIONTIME-RESOLVEDTRANSVERSE DISTRIBUTIONWAKEFIELDSMODULATIONPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY(ALL) ??
ID Code:
131535
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Deposited On:
08 Mar 2019 13:20
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
19 Sep 2023 02:06