Multi-GeV energy gain in a plasma-wakefield accelerator. 2005

M J Hogan, and C D Barnes, and C E Clayton, and F J Decker, and S Deng, and P Emma, and C Huang, and R H Iverson, and D K Johnson, and C Joshi, and T Katsouleas, and P Krejcik, and W Lu, and K A Marsh, and W B Mori, and P Muggli, and C L O'Connell, and E Oz, and R H Siemann, and D Walz
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309, USA.

A plasma-wakefield accelerator has accelerated particles by over 2.7 GeV in a 10 cm long plasma module. A 28.5 GeV electron beam with 1.8 x 10(10) electrons is compressed to 20 microm longitudinally and focused to a transverse spot size of 10 microm at the entrance of a 10 cm long column of lithium vapor with density 2.8 x 10(17) atoms/cm3. The electron bunch fully ionizes the lithium vapor to create a plasma and then expels the plasma electrons. These electrons return one-half plasma period later driving a large amplitude plasma wake that in turn accelerates particles in the back of the bunch by more than 2.7 GeV.

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