Abstract
We investigate various plasma wakefield accelerator schemes that rely on multiple electron bunches to drive a large amplitude plasma wave, which are followed by a witness bunch at a phase where it will sample the high acceleration gradient and gain energy. Experimental verifications of various two bunch schemes are available in the literature; here we provide analytical calculations and numerical simulations of the wakefield dependency and the transformer ratio when M drive bunches and one witness bunch are fed into a high density plasma, where M is between 2 and 10. This is a favorable setup since the bunches can be adjusted such that the transformer ratio and the efficiency of the accelerator are enhanced compared to single bunch schemes. The possibility of a five bunch ILC afterburner to accelerate a witness bunch from 100 GeV to 500 GeV is also examined.
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