FORMATION OF AN ACCELERATED PLASMA ELECTRON BUNCH IN QUASISTATIC SIMULATIONS OF WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION

Plasma wakefield acceleration studies currently rely considerably on simulating this effect numerically using highly specialized software. Exorbitant computational difficulty of the problem requires simplifying models and methods, limiting such software applicability. Quasistatic approximation, for example, utilizes a plasma model that does not include trapping plasma electrons with the wakefield. This article presents a method that reuses a plasma-beam solver to calculate parameters of wakefield-trapped plasma electrons.

Keywords:
plasma wakefield acceleration, plasma electrons trapping, numerical simulations, quasistatic approximation.
УДК 621.384.647; 004.942

FORMATION OF AN ACCELERATED PLASMA ELECTRON BUNCH IN QUASISTATIC SIMULATIONS OF WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION