Аннотация
We discovered a novel effect that can cause witness emittance growth in plasma wakefield accelerators. The effect appears in linear or moderately nonlinear plasma waves. The witness experiences a time-varying focusing force and loses quality during the time required for the drive beam to reach transverse equilibrium with the plasma wave. The higher the witness charge, the lower the emittance growth rate because of additional focusing of the witness by its own wakefield. However, the witness head always degrades, and the boundary between degraded and intact parts gradually propagates backward along the witness bunch.
Язык оригинала | английский |
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Номер статьи | 093112 |
Число страниц | 6 |
Журнал | Physics of Plasmas |
Том | 25 |
Номер выпуска | 9 |
DOI | |
Состояние | Опубликовано - 1 сен 2018 |