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Hybrid plasma wakefield accelerators combine a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) stage with a particle-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) stage, leveraging the complementary strengths of both approaches. The PWFA stage offers a robust way to improve the energy, stability, and beam quality of electron bunches produced by the LWFA. This makes the hybrid scheme a promising pathway for becoming a compact source for high-quality electron beams that can drive future light sources, such as free electron lasers. A key challenge in such systems is the sensitivity of the PWFA injection process to intrinsic jitters in the LWFA output. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we systematically investigate different PWFA injection schemes and characterize their stability in response to realistic jitter conditions of LWFA-produced electron bunches. Our results provide guidance for the design of robust hybrid accelerator configurations.
| Working group | WG3 |
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