16–21 Aug 2026
Daejeon Convention Center
Asia/Seoul timezone

Tunable photocathode two-bunches mode for advanced accelerator application

Not scheduled
2h
Daejeon Convention Center

Daejeon Convention Center

107 Expo-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon (34125) South Korea
Poster Presentation MC1.A04 Plasma and wakefield acceleration Poster Session

Speaker

Yiheng Ye (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Generation and control of two electron bunches to achieve desired drive and witness quality is crucial for plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA) experiments. One scheme to generate two electron beams with desired spacing is to apply two laser pulses with ps delay on the photocathode and co-accelerated two electron beams in the same RF bucket. Such a method is used in e.g. two-color FEL and PWFA experiments.

We will talk about the dynamic, operation, and control aspects of the photocathode two-bunches configuration with nC bunch charge, asymmetric bunch charge ratio, kA peak current, and multi-stage compression. We will talk about experimental performance, and benchmark it against simulation and analytic theory incorporating wakefield effect. We demonstrate excellent longitudinal simulation-experiment agreement using XTCAV measurements, and show that photocathode two bunches provide sufficient flexibility and tunability for various advanced accelerator applications.

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Authors

Dr Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Brendan O'Shea (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Claudio Emma (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Douglas Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Gerald Yocky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ivan Rajkovic (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Junzhi Wang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Kelly Swanson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Marcellus Parker (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Mark Hogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Nathan Majernik (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ryan Loney (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Sharon Perez (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Spencer Gessner (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Yiheng Ye (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Zack Buschmann (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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