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Physics of the Awake Project P Proceedings of IPAC2013, Shanghai, China TUPEA008 PHYSICS OF THE AWAKE PROJECT P. Muggli, A. Caldwell, O. Reimann, E. Oz, R. Tarkeshian, MPI, Munich, Germany C. Bracco, E. Gschwendtner, A. Pardons, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland K. Lotov, BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia A. Pukhov, HHUD, Dusseldorf, Germany M. Wing, S. Mandry, UCL, London, UK J. Vieira, IPFN, Lisbon, Portugal Abstract riodic longitudinal bunch density modulation results from We briefly describe the physics goals of the AWAKE ex- transverse effects and not from longitudinal bunching of periment proposed at CERN. AWAKE is a plasma wake- the relativistic particles. field acceleration (PWFA) experiment using the SPS pro- In this context, the AWAKE experiment at CERN is ton bunch as a PWFA driver. These goals include the study being proposed. The general parameters for the experi- of the self-modulation instability of the proton bunch prop- ment are given in Table 1. The experiment will use the 11 + agating along the plasma, the sampling of the accelerat- σz ≈ 12 cm SPS bunches with 3 × 10 p at 400 GeV . + ing wakefields by witness electrons, the acceleration of an The p beam will be focused to σr ≈ 200 µm near the electron bunch as well more long term issues, such as the entrance of a 10m-long plasma with a density adjustable 14 15 −3 generation of very long plasmas and of very short proton in the 10 − 10 cm range. This density range keeps bunches. kpeσr ≤ 1 (kpe = 2π/λpe) in order to avoid the possible occurrence of the transverse current filamentation instabil- INTRODUCTION ity when kpeσr 1 [6]. The best location available at CERN to perform the AWAKE experiment is the CNGS + Proton (p ) bunches are interesting for driving wake- beam line [7]. fields in plasmas because they carry large amounts of en- ergy, e.g., with 3 × 1011p+/bunch ∼ 19 kJ for a CERN SPS bunch at 400 GeV and 336 kJ for a LHC bunch at Table 1: General AWAKE Experiment Parameters 7 T eV . These energies are much larger than those typi- Parameter & Symbol Value cal of a future e−=e+ linear collider, e.g., ∼ 1:6kJ for Plasma density, n 7 × 1014 cm−3 2 × 1010e− at 500 GeV . Experiments have demonstrated e Plasma length, L 10 m that electron and positron bunches, i.e., negatively and pos- plasma p+ bunch population, N 3 × 1011 itively charge bunches, about one plasma wavelength long b p+ bunch length, σ 12 cm 2 1=2 z (σ ≈ λ = 2πc=! with ! = n e / m ) drive + z pe pe pe e 0 e p bunch radius, σr 200 µm plasma wakefields with approximately the same amplitude + p bunch energy, Wb 400 GeV [1, 2]. Experiments also demonstrated that accelerating + p bunch energy spread, δWb 0.35% 50 GeV=m + gradients in excess of can be sustained over m- p bunch normalized emittance, bn 3.6 mm mrad scale plasmas, leading to an energy gain of ∼ 42 GeV by − 9 e beam population, Ne 1:25 × 10 42 GeV − trailing electrons of a single bunch [3]. e beam length, σze 0.25 cm + − Simulation results show that a LHC-like p bunch e beam radius at injection point, σre 200 µm 11 + − (1 T eV , 10 p ) can accelerate an incoming 10 GeV elec- e beam energy, We ∼16 MeV − tron bunch to more that 500 GeV in ∼ 500 m of plasma e beam normalized emittance, en 2 mm-mrad − with an average gradient > 1 GeV=m [4]. However, these e beam injection angle, α0 9 mrad simulations use a 100 µm-long proton bunch. Such short, Injection delay relative to the laser pulse, ξ0 13.6 cm high current (∼ 20 kA) bunches do not exist today at this Intersection of beam trajectories, z0 3.9 m energy. It was recently proposed that the self-modulation insta- bility (SMI) of long proton bunches in dense plasmas, i.e., AWAKE EXPERIMENT MAIN PHYSICS with σz λpe, can lead to the formation of a a bunch train with approximately the plasma period that can reso- GOALS nantly drive wakefields to large amplitude [5]. The long The main physics goals of the experiment are: particle bunch excites transverse wakefields with periodic focusing/defocusing fields. These wakefields lead to peri- • to study the physics of self-modulation of long p+ odic larger/smaller density regions along the bunch, which bunches in plasma as a function of beam and plasma then reinforce the wakefields amplitude and provide the parameters. This includes radial modulation and seed- feedback for the SMI to grow. The SMI is a convective ing of the instability; 2013 by JACoW — cc Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY-3.0) c instability that grows both along the bunch and along the • to probe the longitudinal (accelerating) wakefields ○ plasma. It is important to understand that the resulting pe- with externally injected electrons.This includes mea- 03 Particle Sources and Alternative Acceleration Techniques ISBN 978-3-95450-122-9 A22 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration 1179 Copyright TUPEA008 Proceedings of IPAC2013, Shanghai, China suring their energy spectrum for different injection evolve, i.e., it density to become non uniform or to become and plasma parameters; unstable. With a witness bunch placed ∼ 1σz behind the • to study injection dynamics and the production of ionizing laser pulse, at the location of maximum acceler- multi-GeV electron bunches, either from side injec- ating field, the useful lifetime of the plasma is only about tion or from on-axis injection (with two plasma cells). 400 ps. The development of the SMI leads to the beam and This will include using a plasma density step to main- plasma density structures shown on Fig. 2. The protons sit tain the wakefields at the GV/m level over meter dis- in the regions of excess plasma electron density. The seed- tances; ing of the SMI by the ionization front and its dependency • to develop long, scalable and uniform plasma cells and on the position of the ionization front along the p+ will be develop schemes for the production and acceleration studied. The plasma density, as well as the plasma length of short p+ bunches for future experiments and accel- will also be varied in order to study the dependency of the erators. SMI development on these parameters. The bunch radial self-modulation will be studied using coherent (CTR) and incoherent (OTR) transition radiation as well as transverse 0.04 CTR (TCTR) [11]. The OTR will be time resolved using a No-seed Seed sub-ps resolution streak camera. This measurement will re- 0.02 /e] veal the bunch radial modulation structure, the dependency p t of the modulation period on plasma density, as well as the c 0.00 e growth of the SMI along the bunch. Electro-optic sampling [m 1 E -0.02 will be used with CTR as well as with TCTR. For example first side bands in the laser pulse spectrum will yield the -0.04 bunch modulation period, while higher order side band will 11400 11600 11800 12000 12200 12400 12600 1280 Position [c / t p] yield information about the modulation depth. 0.0 0.20 Figure 1: Longitudinal electric field (E1 in units of the 8.3 meters Propagation direction wave breaking field mec!pe=e = 0:96 GV=m) along the -0.4 + ] p ∼ 6:5 m ] bunch after propagation in of plasma in the e0 e0 [n + 0.10 [n case of the unseeded, full length p bunch (black line). pe -0.8 radius (r) plasma beam The bunch (not shown) is propagating to the right, is cen- r -1.2 tered at ∼ 12050c=!pe (where the ionizing laser pulse is placed) and is σz ≈ 22:6c=!pe-long (c=!pe = 530 µm, 0.00 14 −3 10 Distance in beam (z) ne = 10 cm ). Other parameters are Nb = 11:5×10 , Wb = 450 GeV and those of Table1. Simulations with the OSIRIS code [8]. Figure 2: Longitudinal section of the self-modulated p+ bunch resonantly driving plasma wakefields sustained by the plasma density perturbation. The plasma electron den- SMI Seeding sity is shown increasing from white to blue and the proton Numerical simulation results in 2D cylindrical geometry density increasing from yellow to dark red. The bunch and show that with the parameters of Table 1 and the full length plasma modulations period is approximately the wakefield + p bunch propagating in a pre-formed plasma the SMI does period λpe. Simulation with the OSIRIS code [8]. not grow to a measurable level along the 10 m plasma (see Fig. 1, black line). The SMI must therefore be seeded, i.e., wakefield of sufficient amplitude must be driven for it to Wakefields Sampling grow and saturate over the plasma length. Seeding can The SMI is driven by transverse wakefields. However, be achieved for example through driving wakefield with longitudinal wakefields can be used to accelerate witness a preceding laser pulse or particle bunch with duration particles (Fig. 1). Since the phase velocity of the wake- ≤ 2π=!pe. Seeding can also be achieved by shaping the fields is lower than that of the bunch during the growth of + p bunch with a sharp, rising edge, typically ≤ 2π=!pe. the SMI [12, 13], witness electrons must be injected at a po- However, shaping methods [9] are very difficult to imple- sition along the plasma after the SMI has saturated. Initial ment with high energy p+ bunches. Therefore, the seeded experiments will use a single long plasma cell and the elec- method uses a relativistic ionization front [10] created by a trons will be “side-injected” into the plasma wave that will moderately intense (< 1013 W=cm2) and short laser pulse trap and accelerate them [14].
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