Bunch shaping in electron linear accelerators

G Ha, KJ Kim, JG Power, Y Sun, P Piot - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Modern electron linear accelerators are often designed to produce smooth bunch
distributions characterized by their macroscopic ensemble-average moments. However, an …

Energy spread minimization in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator

R Pompili, D Alesini, MP Anania, M Behtouei… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron bunches to gigaelectronvolt
energies within centimetre distances,. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, generates …

Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in …

M Abedi-Varaki, ME Daraei - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In this research, the process of electron acceleration and wakefield generation by Gaussian-
like (GL), super-Gaussian (SG) and Bessel–Gaussian (BG) laser pulses through cold …

Efficient six-dimensional phase space reconstructions from experimental measurements using generative machine learning

R Roussel, JP Gonzalez-Aguilera, E Wisniewski… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2024 - APS
Next-generation accelerator concepts, which hinge on the precise shaping of beam
distributions, demand equally precise diagnostic methods capable of reconstructing beam …

Energy depletion and re-acceleration of driver electrons in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

F Peña, CA Lindstrøm, J Beinortaitė… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
For plasma-wakefield accelerators to fulfill their potential for cost effectiveness, it is essential
that their energy-transfer efficiency be maximized. A key aspect of this efficiency is the near …

Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy

S Schöbel, R Pausch, YY Chang, S Corde… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on experimental investigations of plasma wave structures in a plasma wakefield
acceleration (PWFA) stage which is driven by electron beams from a preceding laser plasma …

First emittance measurement of the beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerated electron beam

V Shpakov, MP Anania, M Behtouei, M Bellaveglia… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2021 - APS
Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron beams to GeV energies
within centimeter distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, is indeed able to sustain …

High-resolution sampling of beam-driven plasma wakefields

S Schröder, CA Lindstrøm, S Bohlen, G Boyle… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Plasma-wakefield accelerators driven by intense particle beams promise to significantly
reduce the size of future high-energy facilities. Such applications require particle beams with …

Progress in End-to-End Optimization of Detectors for Fundamental Physics with Differentiable Programming

M Aehle, L Arsini, RB Barreiro, A Belias, F Bury… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this article we examine recent developments in the research area concerning the creation
of end-to-end models for the complete optimization of measuring instruments. The models …

High-gradient plasma and laser accelerators

R Assmann, E Gschwendtner, K Cassou… - CERN Yellow …, 2022 - e-publishing.cern.ch
Novel high-gradient accelerators have demonstrated acceleration of electrons and positrons
with electric field strengths of 1 to> 100 GeV/m. This is about 10 to 1000 times higher than …