Hot spots and dark current in advanced plasma wakefield accelerators
Dark current can spoil witness bunch beam quality and acceleration efficiency in particle beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators. In advanced schemes, hot spots generated by the drive beam or the wakefield can release electrons from higher ionization threshold levels in the plasma media. These el...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2016-01-01
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Series: | Physical Review Accelerators and Beams |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.011303 |