Speaker
Francois Lemery
(NIU)
Description
Wakefield acceleration has recently received much interest due to large acceleration gradients and cost effectiveness. We discuss recent simulation studies concerning the optimzation of the longitudinal current profile of a drive-bunch to maximize the peak accelerating field and transformer ratio in cylindrically symmetric dielectric lined wavguides (DLW). Moreover, we discuss the non-linear relationship between the longitudinal current profile of the drive-bunch and the parameters associated to the DLW. Lastly, we discuss experimental plans to study flat, longitudinally tailored drive-bunch shapes at ASTA.
Primary author
Francois Lemery
(NIU)
Co-authors
Daniel Mihalcea
(FNAL, NIU)
Philippe Piot
(FNAL, NIU)