Acceleration and Focusing Electron/Positron Bunches in Plasma-Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator

TL;DR

This paper investigates how plasma filling in dielectric wakefield accelerators can mitigate instabilities and enhance the focusing of electron and positron bunches through analytical and numerical studies of wakefield dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces the analytical and numerical analysis of plasma-filled dielectric wakefield accelerators, revealing new eigenwaves and their role in stabilizing bunches.

Findings

Identification of surface and bulk eigenwaves in plasma DWA

Bulk plasma eigenwave stabilizes transverse bunch motion

Qualitative agreement between analytical and numerical results

Abstract

To mitigate the BBU instability and improve characteristics of accelerated bunches in Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator one can be used the isotropic plasma filling of the transport channel. Here we present the results of analytical and numerical studies of the dynamics of accelerated electron/positron and drive electron bunches under wake acceleration in a plasma DWA (PDWA) with a vacuum channel. The wake field is excited by an electron bunch in a quartz dielectric tube inserted into a cylindrical metal waveguide. The inner region of the dielectric tube is filled with plasma with a vacuum channel along the waveguide axis. At the numerical simulations the energy and spatial characteristics, efficiency, emittance, and energy spread for accelerated positron and electron bunches is studied for different radii of the vacuum channel. The transverse instability of the drive bunch in PDWA is studied analytically and numerically. The analytical studies have discovered the presence of one surface and one bulk eigenwaves, which are absent in corresponding dielectric-loaded waveguide without plasma filling. The main contribution to amplitude of transverse wakefield, responsible for stabilization of transverse motion of bunches, brings the bulk plasma eigenwave. The comparative analysis of the data resulting from analytical studies and the ones obtained by numerical simulation has demonstrated qualitative agreement between the results.