Fig. 1: Conceptual representation of the plasma probe process. | Nature

Fig. 1: Conceptual representation of the plasma probe process.

From: Recovery time of a plasma-wakefield accelerator

Fig. 1

For the perturbed measurements, a leading bunch drives a wakefield, which in turn stimulates motion of the plasma ions. The two probe bunches sample the perturbed plasma in increments of 0.77 ns after the temporally locked leading bunch. For the unperturbed measurements, the procedure is the same but without the presence of the leading bunch. The rendering was performed using VisualPIC33.

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