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TY - JOUR
T1 - Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma
AU - AWAKE Collaboration
AU - Batsch, F.
AU - Muggli, P.
AU - Agnello, R.
AU - Ahdida, C.C.
AU - Amoedo Goncalves, M.C.
AU - Andrebe, Y.
AU - Apsimon, O.
AU - Apsimon, R.
AU - Bachmann, A.-M.
AU - Baistrukov, M.A.
AU - Blanchard, P.
AU - Braunmüller, F.
AU - Burrows, P.N.
AU - Buttenschön, B.
AU - Caldwell, A.
AU - Chappell, J.
AU - Chevallay, E.
AU - Chung, M.
AU - Cooke, D.A.
AU - Damerau, H.
AU - Davut, C.
AU - Demeter, G.
AU - Deubner, H.L.
AU - Doebert, S.
AU - Farmer, J.
AU - Fasoli, A.
AU - Fedosseev, V.N.
AU - Fiorito, R.
AU - Fonseca, R.A.
AU - Friebel, F.
AU - Furno, I.
AU - Garolfi, L.
AU - Gessner, S.
AU - Gorgisyan, I.
AU - Gorn, A.A.
AU - Granados, E.
AU - Granetzny, M.
AU - Graubner, T.
AU - Grulke, O.
AU - Gschwendtner, E.
AU - Hafych, V.
AU - Helm, A.
AU - Henderson, J.R.
AU - Hüther, M.
AU - Kim, S.-Y.
AU - Liang, L.
AU - Liu, S.
AU - Mazzoni, S.
AU - Turner, M.
AU - Woolley, B.
PY - 2021/4/23
Y1 - 2021/4/23
N2 - We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally that, with sufficient initial amplitude [≥(4.1±0.4) MV/m], the phase of the modulation along the bunch is reproducible from event to event, with 3%-7% (of 2π) rms variations all along the bunch. The phase is not reproducible for lower initial amplitudes. We observe the transition between these two regimes. Phase reproducibility is essential for deterministic external injection of particles to be accelerated.
AB - We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally that, with sufficient initial amplitude [≥(4.1±0.4) MV/m], the phase of the modulation along the bunch is reproducible from event to event, with 3%-7% (of 2π) rms variations all along the bunch. The phase is not reproducible for lower initial amplitudes. We observe the transition between these two regimes. Phase reproducibility is essential for deterministic external injection of particles to be accelerated.
KW - Modulation
KW - Plasma stability
KW - Relativistic ionization front
KW - Relativistic particles
KW - Reproducibilities
KW - Self modulation
KW - Wake fields
KW - Plasma diagnostics
KW - article
KW - cell cycle M phase
KW - human tissue
KW - reproducibility
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.164802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.164802
M3 - Journal article
VL - 126
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 16
M1 - 164802
ER -