TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulations of an energy dechirper based on dielectric lined waveguides
AU - Nie, Y.
AU - Xia, G.
AU - Pacey, T.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Terahertz frequency wakefields can be excited by ultra-short relativistic electron bunches travelling through dielectric lined waveguide (DLW) structures. These wakefields can either accelerate a witness bunch with high gradient, or modulate the energy of the driving bunch. In this paper, we study a passive dechirper based on the DLW to compensate the correlated energy spread of the bunches accelerated by the laser plasma wakefield accelerator (LWFA). A rectangular waveguide structure was employed taking advantage of its continuously tunable gap during operation. The assumed 200 MeV driving bunch had a Gaussian distribution with a bunch length of 3.0μm, a relative correlated energy spread of 1%, and a total charge of 10 pC. Both of the CST Wakefield Solver and PIC Solver were used to simulate and optimize such a dechirper. Effect of the time-dependent self-wake on the driving bunch was analysed in terms of the energy modulation and the transverse phase space.
AB - Terahertz frequency wakefields can be excited by ultra-short relativistic electron bunches travelling through dielectric lined waveguide (DLW) structures. These wakefields can either accelerate a witness bunch with high gradient, or modulate the energy of the driving bunch. In this paper, we study a passive dechirper based on the DLW to compensate the correlated energy spread of the bunches accelerated by the laser plasma wakefield accelerator (LWFA). A rectangular waveguide structure was employed taking advantage of its continuously tunable gap during operation. The assumed 200 MeV driving bunch had a Gaussian distribution with a bunch length of 3.0μm, a relative correlated energy spread of 1%, and a total charge of 10 pC. Both of the CST Wakefield Solver and PIC Solver were used to simulate and optimize such a dechirper. Effect of the time-dependent self-wake on the driving bunch was analysed in terms of the energy modulation and the transverse phase space.
KW - Dielectric wakefield accelerator
KW - Energy spread dechirper
KW - Ultra-short electron bunch
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2017.11.050
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2017.11.050
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85037569358
JO - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
SN - 0168-9002
ER -