Experimental demonstration of wakefield acceleration in a tunable dielectric loaded accelerating structure

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Apr 22;106(16):164802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.164802. Epub 2011 Apr 21.

Abstract

We report on a collinear wakefield experiment using the first tunable dielectric loaded accelerating structure. By introducing an extra layer of nonlinear ferroelectric, which has a dielectric constant sensitive to temperature and dc bias, the frequency of a dielectric loaded accelerating structure can be tuned. During the experiment, the energy of a witness bunch at a fixed delay with respect to the drive beam was measured while the temperature of the structure was scanned over a 50 °C range. The energy change corresponded to a change of more than half of the nominal structure wavelength.