Advanced regimes of proton beam-driven plasma wake field acceleration

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Alexander Pukhov
• Subject Area: Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: from 2010 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 164562715

• Final Report Year: 2015

Final Report Abstract

Within this project, we have developed the theory of self-modulation instability (SMI) of particle beams propagating in plasmas. Based on our theoretical research, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN emerged that is going to test the theory in an experiment. The SPS (Super-Proton-Synchrotron) proton bunch will be sent through a 10 m long plasma cell. This proton bunch will undergo self-modulation and excite a high amplitude plasma wake that will be used for acceleration of externally injected electrons. The main finding of the theory are (i) the instability growth rate, (ii) the wake phase velocity dynamics, (iii) optimal parameters for the AWAKE implementation at CERN.

Publications

• “Phase velocity and particle injection in a self-modulated proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator”, Physical review letters 107 (14), 145003 (2011)
  A Pukhov, N Kumar, T Tückmantel, A Upadhyay, K Lotov, P Muggli et al.
  
• “Plasma wakefield excitation with a 24 GeV proton beam“, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53 (1), 014003 (2011)
  A Caldwell, K Lotov, A Pukhov, G Xia
  
• “Principles of self-modulated proton driven plasma wake field acceleration”, AIP Conference Proceedings-American Institute of Physics 1507 (1), 103 (2012)
  A Pukhov, T Tuckmantel, N Kumar, A Upadhyay, K Lotov, V Khudik
  
• “Transverse coherent transition radiation for diagnosis of modulated proton bunches”, Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams 15 (11), 111301 (2012)
  A Pukhov, T Tueckmantel
  
• “Effect of plasma inhomogeneity on plasma wakefield acceleration driven by long bunches”, Physics of Plasmas (1994-present) 20 (1), 013102 (2013)
  KV Lotov, A Pukhov, A Caldwell
  
• “H-VLPL: A three-dimensional relativistic PIC/fluid hybrid code”, Journal of Computational Physics 269, 168- 180 (2014)
  T Tückmantel, A Pukhov
  
• “Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics”, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56 (8), 084013 (2014)
  R Assmann, R Bingham, T Bohl, C Bracco, B Buttenschön, A Butterworth, A Caldwell, S Chattopadhyay, S Cipiccia, E Feldbaumer, RA Fonseca, B Goddard, M Gross, O Grulke, E Gschwendtner, J Holloway, C Huang, D Jaroszynski, S Jolly, P Kempkes, N Lopes, K Lotov, J Machacek, SR Mandry, JW McKenzie, M Meddahi, BL Militsyn, N Moschuering, P Muggli, Z Najmudin, TCQ Noakes, PA Norreys, E Öz, A Pardons, A Petrenko, A Pukhov, K Rieger, O Reimann, H Ruhl, E Shaposhnikova, LO Silva, A Sosedkin, R Tarkeshian, RMGN Trines, T Tückmantel, J Vieira, H Vincke, M Wing, G Xia, AWAKE Collaboration
  
• “Study of Laser Wakefield Accelerators as injectors for Synchrotron light sources”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators 740, 153 (2014)
  S Hillenbrand, R Assmann, AS Müller, O Jansen, V Judin, A Pukhov
  
• “Temporal and spatial expansion of a multi-dimensional model for electron acceleration in the bubble regime “, Laser and Particle Beams 32 (02), 277-284 (2014)
  J Thomas, A Pukhov, IY Kostyukov
  
• “Field-Reversed Bubble in Deep Plasma Channels for High-Quality Electron Acceleration”, Physical review letters 113 (24), 245003 (2015)
  A Pukhov, O Jansen, T Tueckmantel, J Thomas, IY Kostyukov