The optimum plasma density for plasma wakefield excitation in the blowout regime

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Aug 2010

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 12, Issue 8, pp. 085002 (2010).

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The optimum plasma density for achieving the largest wakefield accelerating gradient in a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) for a given electron beam driver parameters (fixed charge, spot size and duration) is analyzed. It is found that the peak beam current Ip (charge per unit time) plays an important role in determining the optimum density. We show that for narrow beams of low peak current (IpLtIA≈17 kA and σrLtσz), the prediction from linear theory (Lu et al 2005 Phys. Plasma 12 063101) that k_p\sigma_z=\sqrt{2} or np (cm-3)≈5.6×1019/σz2 (μm) for a bi-Gaussian bunch of length σz and spot size σr, works well for obtaining the maximum accelerating gradient. However, for narrow beams of high peak current (IpgsimIA and σrLtσz), the optimum density can be an order of magnitude larger than that predicted by linear theory. In this regime, we show that a new condition np~nb0 should be used for 1lsimσz/σrlsim10, where nb0 is the peak beam density. Theoretical arguments for this new condition are given and the predictions are confirmed by particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations.

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