Abstract
We study the effect of plasma temperature on ion motion in a plasma wakefield accelerator with parameters typical of a future high-energy accelerator. We show that the collapse of the plasma ions caused by the extremely high fields of ultradense electron bunches can be prevented only by a very high plasma ion temperature.
Highlights
We study the effect of plasma temperature on ion motion in a plasma wakefield accelerator with parameters typical of a future high-energy accelerator
We show that the collapse of the plasma ions caused by the extremely high fields of ultradense electron bunches can be prevented only by a very high plasma ion temperature
When the beam density nb is larger than the plasma density, all the plasma electrons are displaced on a time scale given by the electron plasma frequency
Summary
We study the effect of plasma temperature on ion motion in a plasma wakefield accelerator with parameters typical of a future high-energy accelerator. In this case of ion column collapse, the ion density no longer remains uniform along and across the accelerating structure and the transverse focusing force is nonlinear [Fig. 2(d)].
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