Abstract
A new method of controllable injection to generate high quality electron bunches in the nonlinear blowout regime driven by electron beams is proposed and demonstrated using particle-in-cell simulations. Injection is facilitated by decreasing the wake phase velocity through varying the spot size of the drive beam and can be tuned through the Courant-Snyder (CS) parameters. Two regimes are examined. In the first, the spot size is focused according to the vacuum CS beta function, while in the second, it is focused by the plasma ion column. The effects of the driver intensity and vacuum CS parameters on the wake velocity and injected beam parameters are examined via theory and simulations. For plasma densities of $\sim 10^{19} ~\text{cm}^{-3}$, particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations demonstrate that peak normalized brightnesses $\gtrsim 10^{20}~\text{A}/\text{m}^2/\text{rad}^2$ can be obtained with projected energy spreads of $\lesssim 1\%$ within the middle section of the injected beam, and with normalized slice emittances as low as $\sim 10 ~\text{nm}$.
Highlights
Over the past few decades, plasma-based acceleration (PBA), driven by either a laser pulse (LWFA) [1] or particle beam (PWFA) [2], has attracted significant interest in compact particle accelerator and x-ray free-electronlaser (XFEL) applications due to the high accelerating fields ∼10–100 GV=m they generate [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
While the generation of ultrarelativistic electron beams through selfinjection in an evolving plasma wake has been observed in LWFA experiments [5,6,7,8] and demonstrated in simulations [13,14,15,16], the beams produced to date do not exhibit the sufficiently low energy spreads σγ and high normalized brightnesses Bn 1⁄4 2I=ε2n required to drive XFEL devices [17] where I and εn represent the current and normalized emittance, respectively
We propose and demonstrate a new method of controllable injection using an electron beam driver whose spot size is decreasing in the nonlinear blowout
Summary
Over the past few decades, plasma-based acceleration (PBA), driven by either a laser pulse (LWFA) [1] or particle beam (PWFA) [2], has attracted significant interest in compact particle accelerator and x-ray free-electronlaser (XFEL) applications due to the high accelerating fields ∼10–100 GV=m they generate [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. We propose and demonstrate a new method of controllable injection using an electron beam driver whose spot size is decreasing in the nonlinear blowout
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