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Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 98–101 (1988)

Experimental Observation of Plasma Wake-Field Acceleration

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J. B. Rosenzweig, D. B. Cline*, B. Cole†, H. Figueroa‡, W. Gai, R. Konecny, J. Norem, P. Schoessow, and J. Simpson
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439

Received 21 March 1988; published in the issue dated 4 July 1988

We report the first experimental test of the physics of plasma wake-field acceleration performed at the Argonne National Laboratory Advanced Accelerator Test Facility. Megavolt-per-meter plasma wake fields are excited by a intense 21-MeV, multipiscosecond bunch of electrons in a plasma of density ne≃1013 cm-3, and probed by a low-intensity 15-MeV witness pulse with a variable delay time behind the intense bunch. Accelerating and deflecting wake-field measurements are presented, and the results compared to theoretical predictions.

© 1988 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.98
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.98
PACS:
52.75.Di, 52.40.Mj

*Present address: Department of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

†Permanent address: Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.

‡Present address: Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.

 
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