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Mapping Charge Capture and Acceleration in a Plasma Wakefield of a Proton Bunch Using Variable Emittance Electron Beam Injection |
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- E. Granados, A.-M. Bachmann, E. Chevallay, S. Döbert, V.N. Fedosseev, F. Friebel, S.J. Gessner, E. Gschwendtner, S.Y. Kim, S. Mazzoni, M. Turner, L. Verra
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
- A.-M. Bachmann, L. Verra
MPI, Muenchen, Germany
- S.Y. Kim
UNIST, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
- S.Y. Kim
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
- J.T. Moody
MPI-P, München, Germany
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In the Phase 2 of the AWAKE first experimental run (from May to November 2018), an electron beam was used to probe and test proton-driven wakefield accelera-tion in a rubidium plasma column. The witness electron bunches were produced using an RF-gun equipped with a Cs2Te photocathode illuminated by a tailorable ultrafast ultraviolet (UV) laser pulse. The construction of the UV beam optical system enabled appropriate transverse beam shaping and control of its pulse duration, size, and position on the photocathode, as well as time delay with respect to the ionizing laser pulse that seeds the plasma wakefields in the proton bunches. Variable photocathode illumination provided the required flexibility to produce electron bunches with variable charge, emittance, and injection trajectory into the plasma column. In this work, we analyze the overall charge capture and shot-to-shot reproducibility of the proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator with various UV illumination and electron bunch injection parameters.
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