THE PLASMA BEAT-WAVE ACCELERATION EXPERIMENT AT ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE

Authors
AMIRANOFF F ARDONCEAU J BERCHER M BERNARD D CROS B DEBRAINE A DIEULOT JM FUSELLIER J JACQUET F JOLY JM JUILLARD M MATTHIEUSSENT G MATRICON P MINE P MONTES B MORA P MORANO R MORILLO J MOULIN F POILLEUX P SPECKA AE STENZ C
Citation
F. Amiranoff et al., THE PLASMA BEAT-WAVE ACCELERATION EXPERIMENT AT ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 363(3), 1995, pp. 497-510
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
363
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
497 - 510
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)363:3<497:TPBAEA>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
We present an experiment for demonstrating the principle of plasma bea t-wave acceleration. The beating of two Nd-laser pulses creates a rela tivistic plasma wave in a deuterium plasma. Electrons at an energy of 3 MeV are injected into the plasma. We observe several hundred electro ns accelerated up to 3.7 MeV. This paper is mainly devoted to the desc ription of the experimental apparatus. In the design of the apparatus, we gave particular attention to efficient electron injection and to b ackground noise suppression. We present also some preliminary results of electron acceleration experiments.