Observation of plasma focusing of a 28.5 GeV positron beam.
/ Authors
Johnny S. T. Ng, Pisin Chen, H. Baldis, P. Bolton, David B. Cline, W. Craddock, C. Crawford, F. Decker, C. Field, Y. Fukui
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V. Kumar, R. Iverson, F. King, R. Kirby, Kazuhisa Nakajima, R. J. Noble, A. Ogata, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, A. Weidemann
/ Abstract
The observation of plasma focusing of a 28.5 GeV positron beam is reported. The plasma was formed by ionizing a nitrogen jet only 3 mm thick. Simultaneous focusing in both transverse dimensions was observed with effective focusing strengths of order tesla per micron. The minimum area of the beam spot was reduced by a factor of 2.0+/-0.3 by the plasma. The longitudinal beam envelope was measured and compared with numerical calculations.
Journal: Physical review letters