IPAC'24 - 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Beam transport and diagnostics study for a space plasma experiment at MITHRA

MOPR63

20 May 2024, 16:00

2h

Rock 'n Roll (MCC Exhibit Hall A)

Poster Presentation MC3.A22 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Monday Poster Session

Speaker

Pratik Manwani (University of California, Los Angeles)

Description

The MITHRA facility being commissioned at UCLA, will be capable of producing low emittance beams with 100s pC of charge with bunch lengths in the 100s of fs range having an energy of 60 MeV. This can be used to drive plasma wakefields and the long bunch length compared to the plasma skin depth allows us to create a beam with a broadband energy spectrum. The energy spectrum resembles the electron spectrum observed in the radiation belts of Jupiter and can be used as a proxy for electron radiation exposure for flyby operations. In this paper, we discuss the beam transport, plasma source and diagnostics needed for the proposed experiment.

Funding Agency

This work was performed with support of the US Dept. of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics, under contract no. DE-SC0017648 and DESC0009914.