Design analysis for a 100-MeV inverse Cerenkov laser accelerator

The analysis of a 100-MeV demonstration experiment based upon inverse Cerenkov acceleration (ICA) is presented. This experiment would use the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. With 50-GW of delivered laser peak power from the ATF CO/sub 2/ laser, our analysis indicates the 65-MeV ATF e-beam can be accelerated to >165 MeV using three stages of acceleration in /spl sim/1 m of total length. The number of electrons accelerated can be raised to /spl sim/10/sup 9/ by prebunching the e-beam using an already available device.<
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