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Experimental study of wakefields driven by a self-modulating proton bunch in plasma

M. Turner et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 081302 – Published 4 August 2020

Abstract

We study experimentally the longitudinal and transverse wakefields driven by a highly relativistic proton bunch during self-modulation in plasma. We show that the wakefields’ growth and amplitude increase with increasing seed amplitude as well as with the proton bunch charge in the plasma. We study transverse wakefields using the maximum radius of the proton bunch distribution measured on a screen downstream from the plasma. We study longitudinal wakefields by externally injecting electrons and measuring their final energy. Measurements agree with trends predicted by theory and numerical simulations and validate our understanding of the development of self-modulation. Experiments were performed in the context of the Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE).

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  • Received 12 May 2020
  • Accepted 10 July 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.081302

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Accelerators & Beams

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Vol. 23, Iss. 8 — August 2020

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