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View SchemaEnergy Loss of a High Charge Bunched Electron Beam in Plasma
| Authors | N. Barov, J. B. Rosenzweig, M. C. Thompson |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0205007 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0205007 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.7.061301 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.ST Accel.Beams 7 (2004) 061302 |
Abstract
There has been much interest in the blowout regime of plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA), which features ultra-high fields and nonlinear plasma motion. Using an exact analysis, we examine here a fundamental limit of nonlinear PWFA excitation, by an infinitesimally short, relativistic electron beam. The beam energy loss in this case is shown to be linear in charge even for nonlinear plasma response, where a normalized, unitless charge exceeds unity. The physical basis for this effect is discussed, as are deviations from linear behavior observed in simulations with finite length beams.
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