10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Flat beam PWFA theory and experiment at AWA

SUP023
10 Aug 2025, 15:00
3h
Ballroom A (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Ballroom A

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Poster Presentation MC3 - Novel Particle Sources, Acceleration Techniques, and their Applications SUP: Sunday Student Poster Session

Speaker

Pratik Manwani (University of California, Los Angeles)

Description

A wakefield experiment at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility utilizes flat electron beams with highly asymmetric transverse emittances to drive plasma wakefields in the underdense regime. These beams create elliptical blowout structures, producing asymmetric transverse focusing forces. The experiment utilizes a compact 4-cm-long capillary discharge plasma source developed at UCLA. Analytic models of blowout ellipticity and matching conditions, supported by particle-in-cell simulations, guide the experiment's design. Engineering preparations including the use of windows for vacuum-gas separation, beam transport and diagnostics are discussed along with the first beam runs which involve flat beam generation and transport. The theory of flat beam plasma wakefield interaction will also be discussed

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.

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Authors

Alexander Ody (Argonne National Laboratory) Gerard Andonian (University of California, Los Angeles) James Rosenzweig (University of California, Los Angeles) Nathan Majernik (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Pratik Manwani (University of California, Los Angeles) Yunbo Kang (Particle Beam Physics Lab (PBPL))

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