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Design of a Dielectric-lined Waveguide for Terahertz-driven Linear Electron Acceleration

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Publication date05/2017
Host publicationProceedings of the 28th Linear Accelerator Conference: LINAC2016
EditorsYoshishige Yamazaki, Alberto Facco, Amy McCausey, Volker R.W. Schaa
PublisherJACoW
Pages158-160
Number of pages3
ISBN (print)9783954501694
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A dielectric-lined waveguide has been designed for use as an accelerating structure in terahertz-driven electron acceleration experiments at Daresbury. Experimental verification of acceleration will take place on Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator (VELA). The choice of a rectangular waveguide structure with sidewall dielectric layers enables tuning by varying the spacing between dielectric slabs to account for potential manufacturing errors. Schemes for coupling free-space single cycle THz pulses into the waveguide have been evaluated and optimised through CST simulation. Comparison of simulation with experimental measurements will also be presented.