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Collective acceleration of protons by the plasma waves in a counterstreaming electron beam [electronic resource].

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Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1987.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Pages: 8 : digital, PDF file
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Los Alamos National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
A novel advanced accelerator is proposed. The counterstreaming electron beam accelerator relies on the same physical mechanism as that of the plasma accelerator but replaces the stationary plasma in the plasma accelerator by a magnetized relativistic electron beam, drifting antiparallel to the driving source and the driven particles, as the wave supporting medium. The plasma wave in a counterstreaming electron beam can be excited either by a density-ramped driving electron beam or by properly beating two laser beams. The fundamental advantages of the counterstreaming electron beam accelerator over the plasma accelerator are a longer and tunable plasma wavelength, a longer pump depletion length or a larger transformer ratio, and easier pulse shaping for the driving source and the driven beam. Thus the energy gain of the driven particles can be greatly enhanced whereas the trapping threshold can be dramatically reduced so as to admit the possibility for proton acceleration.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:la-ur-87-870
E 1.99: conf-870302-63
conf-870302-63
la-ur-87-870
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Published through SciTech Connect.
03/01/1987.
"la-ur-87-870"
" conf-870302-63"
"DE87007493"
Particle accelerator conference, Washington, DC, USA, 16 Mar 1987.
Yan, Y.T.
Funding Information:
W-7405-ENG-36
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