Experimental Observation of the Motion of Ions in a Resonantly Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
We show experimentally that an effect of motion of ions, observed in a plasma-based accelerator, depends inversely on the plasma ion mass. The effect appears within a single wakefield event and manifests itself as a bunch tail, occurring only when sufficient motion of ions suppresses wakefields. Wakefields are driven resonantly by multiple bunches, and simulation results indicate that the ponderomotive force causes the motion of ions. In this case, the effect is also expected to depend on the amplitude of the wakefields, experimentally confirmed through variations in the drive bunch charge.
Authors
- Francesco Velotti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7815-6011)
- Y. Andrèbe
- Guoxing Xia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3683-386X)
- S. Liu
- T. Nechaeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5326-0861)
- T. Lefèvre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2976-5811)
- Florian Kraus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4368-8418)
- P.N. Burrows
- J. M. Arnesano
- P. Blanchard
- M. Granetzny (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3368-0201)
- G. Demeter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6969-9890)
- C. Ahdida
- Miguel Martínez-Calderón (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8410-5496)
- L. Ranc
- O. Schmitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9580-9149)
- O. Grulke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7879-8671)
- John Farmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-2127)
- E. Senes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9810-1878)
- M. Wendt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0401-9879)
- M. Bergamaschi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6862-9951)
- J. Pucek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1584-4708)
- R. Apsimon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6346-5989)
- E. Guran
- M. Moreira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7083-7952)
- C. Davut (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4858-5680)
- B. Buttenschön
- M. Wing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6319-4135)
- P. Muggli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9669-8519)
- E. Gschwendtner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1923-3387)
- E. Granados (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6549-9303)
- Vittorio Bencini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-7214)
- Brian Spear (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6788-8727)
- Ricardo Fonseca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6342-6226)
- V. Verzilov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0088-8287)
- C. Stollberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6102-0898)
- Erwin Walter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6504-5889)
- A. Topaloudis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-0337)
- F. Jenko
- K Blum
- N. Lopes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8355-4727)
- G. Zevi Della Porta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-6061)
- J. Vieira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5515-3624)
- N. Torrado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3027-4024)
- I. Furno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8348-1716)
- Tim Graubner
- A. Dexter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6660-9466)
- K. Pépitone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4514-293X)
- Ö. Apsimon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5410-7706)
- D. Cooke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8417-3598)
- П. В. Туев (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9156-7405)
- Joseph Wolfenden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4301-4889)
- M. Turner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8861-1521)
- S. Doebert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-2466)
- N. van Gils
- C. Pakuza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-3343)
- H. Saberi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8938-9934)
- M. Á. Kedves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3147-5135)
- R. Agnello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1462-6480)
- К. В. Лотов (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9366-7848)
- Linbo Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7149)
- L. Verra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-6352)
- A. Sublet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3165-7449)
- F. N. Pannell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7908-400X)
- M. Zepp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-9160)
- M. Krupa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-2249)
- James R. Henderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7418-5103)
- М. Chung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7014-4120)
- V. Yarygova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5475-1463)
- R. E. Rossel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-4392)
- P. I. Morales Guzmán (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2859-423X)
- A. Pukhov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-960X)
- N. V. Okhotnikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0215-2303)
- A. Fasoli
- A. Pardons
- C. Swain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8893-3846)
- Benjamin Woolley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0352-2769)
- S. Mazzoni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5176-4391)
- Carsten Welsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7085-0973)
- Rebecca Ramjiawan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1248-8608)
- C. Amoedo
- E. Poimendidou
- A. Clairembaud
- J. Mezger
- J. Fernando Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2164-0739)
- A. Caldwell
- L. O. Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-8365)
- S. Rey
Institutions
- Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (PT)
- Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento (PT)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)
- TRIUMF (CA)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Cockcroft Institute (GB)
- Korea Post (KR)
- University College Lahore (PK)
- Daresbury Laboratory (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Physics (DE)
- Excellence Cluster Origins (DE)
- Angstrom Designs (United States) (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics - Greifswald (DE)
- HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (DE)
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- University College London (GB)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.155001
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Cockcroft Institute
- TRIUMF
- CERN
- National Research Foundation
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia