Design Studies and Commissioning Plans for PARS Experimental Program

TL;DR

This paper presents design studies and commissioning plans for the PARS experimental program, focusing on numerical simulations to optimize plasma wakefield acceleration configurations at Daresbury Laboratory.

Contribution

It provides detailed 2D numerical studies and measurement methods for optimizing the PARS plasma wakefield acceleration setup.

Findings

Optimal bunch length, radius, and plasma density configurations identified.

Numerical simulations demonstrate potential for efficient two-beam acceleration.

Measurement methods for experimental validation discussed.

Abstract

PARS (Plasma Acceleration Research Station) is an electron beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration test stand proposed for VELA/CLARA facility in Daresbury Laboratory. In order to optimise various operational configurations, 2D numerical studies were performed by using VSIM for a range of parameters such as bunch length, radius, plasma density and positioning of the bunches with respect to each other for the two-beam acceleration scheme. In this paper, some of these numerical studies and considered measurement methods are presented.