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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Main Authors: G. G. Manahan, A. Deng, O. Karger, Y. Xi, A. Knetsch, M. Litos, G. Wittig, T. Heinemann, J. Smith, Z. M. Sheng, D. A. Jaroszynski, G. Andonian, D. L. Bruhwiler, J. B. Rosenzweig, B. Hidding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-01-01
Series:Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.011303