Beatwave Acceleration Experiments at Ucla
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The possibility of using high density plasmas as a medium for a high gradient accelerator is being studied experimentally at UCLA. This proof-ofprinciple experiment uses a large C@ laser to excite plasma waves with large accelerating fields and a 1.5 MeV linac to probe the fields. Preliminary results from optical scattering diagnostics indicate that the length L of the wave times the accelerating gradient E, is so far limited to Ea< 3.2 MeV whereas the experiment is designed to achieve E,L = 25 MeV.
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