Strategies for mitigating the ionization-induced beam head erosion problem in an electron-beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
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W. An, M. Zhou, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, K.A. Marsh, C. E. Clayton, C. Joshi, W. B. Mori, W. Lu, E. Adli, S. Corde, M. Litos, S. Li, S. Gessner, J. Frederico, M. J. Hogan, D. Walz, J. England, J. P. Delahaye, and P. Muggli Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 90309, USA Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany (Received 11 June 2013; published 9 October 2013)
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