Nature Communications (Jun 2016)
Demonstration of a positron beam-driven hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator
- Spencer Gessner,
- Erik Adli,
- James M. Allen,
- Weiming An,
- Christine I. Clarke,
- Chris E. Clayton,
- Sebastien Corde,
- J. P. Delahaye,
- Joel Frederico,
- Selina Z. Green,
- Carsten Hast,
- Mark J. Hogan,
- Chan Joshi,
- Carl A. Lindstrøm,
- Nate Lipkowitz,
- Michael Litos,
- Wei Lu,
- Kenneth A. Marsh,
- Warren B. Mori,
- Brendan O’Shea,
- Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi,
- Dieter Walz,
- Vitaly Yakimenko,
- Gerald Yocky
Affiliations
- Spencer Gessner
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Erik Adli
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo
- James M. Allen
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Weiming An
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California–Los Angeles
- Christine I. Clarke
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Chris E. Clayton
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California–Los Angeles
- Sebastien Corde
- LOA, ENSTA ParisTech, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay
- J. P. Delahaye
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Joel Frederico
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Selina Z. Green
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Carsten Hast
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Mark J. Hogan
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Chan Joshi
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California–Los Angeles
- Carl A. Lindstrøm
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo
- Nate Lipkowitz
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Michael Litos
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Wei Lu
- Department of Engineering Physics, IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Tsinghua University
- Kenneth A. Marsh
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California–Los Angeles
- Warren B. Mori
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California–Los Angeles
- Brendan O’Shea
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California–Los Angeles
- Dieter Walz
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Vitaly Yakimenko
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Gerald Yocky
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11785
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
Plasma wakefield accelerators produce gradients that are orders of magnitude larger than in conventional particle accelerator, but beams tend to be disrupted by transverse forces. Here the authors create an extended hollow plasma channel, which accelerates positrons without generating transverse forces.
