Simulation of the Laser Acceleration Experiment at the Fermilab/Nicadd Photoinjector Laboratory

The possibility of using laser beam to accelerate electrons in a waveguide structure with dimension much larger than the laser wavelength was proposed by Pantel and analytically investigated by Xie. In the present paper we present the status of our experimental plan to demonstrate the laser/e
^-
interaction using an e
^-
beam with initial energy of 40-50 MeV.