First Name: K.
Middle Name: A.
Last Name: Marsh
Full Name: K.A. Marsh
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| title: | Enhanced Acceleration of Injected Electrons in a Laser Beatwave Induced Plasma Channel |
| format: | preprint |
| year: | 2004 |
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| abstract: | Enhanced energy gain of externally injected electrons by a ~3-cm long, high-gradient relativistic plasma wave (RPW) is demonstrated. Using a CO2 laser-beatwave of duration longer than the ion motion time across the laser spot size, a laser self-guiding process is initiated in a plasma channel. Guiding compensates for ionization-induced defocusing (IID) creating a longer plasma, which extends the interaction length between electrons and the RPW. In contrast to a maximum energy gain of 10 MeV when IID is dominant, the electrons gain up to 38 MeV energy in a laser beatwave induced plasma channel. PACS: 52.35Mw, 52.38Hb, 52.38Kd |
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| title: | Non-Resonant Beat-Wave Excitation of Constant Phase-Velocity, Relativistic Plasma Waves for Charged-Particle Acceleration |
| format: | journal article |
| year: | 2004 |
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| abstract: | The nonresonant beat-wave excitation of relativistic plasma waves is studied in two-dimensional simulations and experiments. It is shown through simulations that, as opposed to the resonant case, the accelerating electric fields associated with the nonresonant plasmons are always in phase with the beat-pattern of the laser pulse. The excitation of such nonresonant relativistic plasma waves is shown to be possible for plasma densities as high as 14 times the resonant density. The density fluctuations and the fields associated with these waves have significant magnitudes, facts confirmed experimentally using collinear Thomson scattering and electron injection, respectively. The applicability of these results towards eventual phase-locked acceleration of prebunched and externally injected electrons is discussed. |
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| title: | Acceleration of Injected Electrons In A Laser Beatwave Experiment |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference |
| year: | 2003 |
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| abstract: | Plasma-based accelerators of particles are of great interest because plasmas can sustain very strong electric fields. They are utilizing a relativistic plasma wave with a phase velocity close to the speed of light driven by a high-power laser beam. The Neptune Laboratory at UCLA is being used for plasma beatwave acceleration of injected electrons. Here, a two-wavelength laser pulse (frequencies w1,w2) resonantly drives a longitudinal electron plasma wave of frequency equal to w1-w2, providing a field strength of GeV/m and, therefore, accelerates an injected electron beam at this very high gradient. A 10 ps beam of 12 MeV electrons is loaded in a 3-cm long plasma beatwave accelerator driven by a TW CO2 laser pulse. At the resonance condition, the electrons have been accelerated to 50 MeV with a gradient of ~1.3 GeV/m. It is shown that for large volume diffraction limited plasmas, when efficiency of the plasma wave excitation is restricted by ionization-induced refraction, acceleration of electrons is enhanced significantly by using asymmetric (fast front and slow fall) long pulses. 2D PIC simulations revealed that guiding of the laser pulse in a ponderomotive, self-induced ion channel, formed ~200 ps after the field ionization, allows compensation for the ionization-induced defocusing and efficient driving of the beatwave over the entire length. |
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| title: | Second generation beatwave experiments at UCLA |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | ICFA Second Generation Plasma Acceleration Workshop |
| year: | 1998 |
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| abstract: | The NEPTUNE laboratory, under construction at UCLA, will be a user facility for exploring concepts useful for advanced accelerators. The primary programmatic goal for the laboratory is to inject extremely high-quality electron bunches into a laser-driven plasma beat wave accelerator and explore ideas for extracting a high-quality Delta E/E<0.1, epsilon <10 pi mm mrad, high-energy (100 MeV) beam from a plasma structure operating at about 1 THz and about 3 GeV/m. The lab will combine an upgraded MARS CO_2 laser and the state-of-the-art SATURNUS RF gun and linac, also undergoing an upgrade. The new MARS laser will be about 1 TW (100 J, 100 ps), up from 0.2 TW (70 J, 350 ps). This allows for doubling the spot size of the laser beam and thereby quadrupling the interaction length while still driving gradients of 3 GeV/m. The large diameter of the accelerating structure relative to the injected electron bunches (10:1 ratio) will minimize the deleterious effects of the radial dependence of the accelerating field and soften the radial focusing thus permitting, in principle, the extraction of a high-quality accelerated beam. |
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| title: | The NEPTUNE facility for 2nd generation advanced accelerator experiments |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 1997 Particle Accelerator Conference |
| year: | 1998 |
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| abstract: | The NEPTUNE Laboratory, under construction at UCLA, will be a user facility for exploring concepts useful for advanced accelerators. [1] The programmatic goal for the laboratory is to inject extremely high quality electron bunches into a laser-driven plasma beat wave accelerator (PBWA) [2] and explore ideas for extracting a high quality DE/E < 0.1, epsilon_n < 10 pi mm-mrad), high energy (100 MeV) beam from a plasma structure operating at about 1 THz and about 3 GeV/m. The lab will combine an upgraded MARS CO2 laser and the state-of-the-art SATURNUS RF gun and linac. [3] The new MARS laser will be about 1 TW (100 J, 100 ps), up from 0.2 TW (70 J, 350 ps). This allows for doubling the spot size at the IP and quadrupling the interaction length while still driving gradients of 3 GeV/m. The SATURNUS gun will be upgraded to the Brookhaven 1.6 cell design. [4] A novel, multi-cell Plane-Wave Transformer (PWT) RF gun is also under development. [5] A sync-pumped, sub-ps dye laser is available to directly produce ultrashort electron pulses (1/5 of an accelerating bucket). Part of the research program will be devoted to studying pulse compression [6] and phaselocking techniques at these ultrahigh frequencies and diagnosing microbunches generated by such structures. [7] Finally, shaped electron pulses will be studied for the electron driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator (PWFA) concept. |
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