Laser-Seeded Modulation Instability Within LHC Proton Beams

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2012-06

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Siemon, C.
Khudik, V.
Yi, S. A.
Pukhov, A.
Shvets, G.

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A new method for seeding the modulation instability (MI) within an SPS-LHC proton beam using a laser pulse is presented. Using simulations, we show that a laser pulse placed ahead of a proton beam excites axially symmetric self-modulation modes within the proton beam and leads to peak accelerating fields that are comparable to previously proposed seeding methods.

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Physics

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proton driven wakefield acceleration, plasma wakefield accelerator, electron-beams, electromagnetic, instabilities, relativistic electrons, 2-stream instability, physics, applied, physics, particles & fields

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Carl Siemon, Vladimir Khudik, S. Austin Yi, Alexander Pukhov, and Gennady Shvets. AIP Conference Proceedings 1507, 629 (Jun., 2012); doi: 10.1063/1.4773770

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http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29382

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