Generation of Electron Microbunches Trains with Adjustable Sub- Picosecond Spacing for Pwfa and Fel Applications
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We use a wire mesh mask placed in a dispersive region of the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory to produce a train of equidistant drive microbunches followed by witness bunch. This type of electron microbunch structure is appropriate for plasma wakefield accelerator experiments. These experiments aim at demonstrating the enhancement of the accelerating field when the wakefield is resonantly driven by a train of microbunches, as well as finite energy spread of the witness bunch after acceleration.
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