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Laser-Plasma Acceleration Modeling Approach in the Case of ESCULAP Project.

Elsa Baynar
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Moana Pittman
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Rui Prazeres
Ke Wang

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Objective of ESCULAP project is the experimental study of Laser-Plasma Acceleration (LPA) of relativistic electron bunch from photo-injector in 10 cm length plasma cell *. In parallel, numerical tools have been developed in order to optimize the setup configuration and the analysis of the expected results. The most important issue when dealing with numerical simulation over such large interaction distances is to obtain a good accuracy at a limited computing cost in order to be able to perform parametric studies. Reduction of the computational cost can be obtained either by using state-of-the-art numerical technics and/or by introducing adapted approximation in the physical model. Concerning LPA, the relevant Maxwell-Vlasov equations can be numerically solved by Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods without any additional approximation, but can be very computationally expensive. On the other hand, the quasi-static approximation ***, which yields a drastic reduction of the computational cost, appears to be well adapted to the LPA regime. In this paper we present a detailed comparison of the performance, in terms of CPU, of LPA calculations and of the accuracies of their results obtained either with a highly optimized PIC code (FBPIC **) or with the well known quasi-static code WAKE ***. We first show that, when considering a sufficiently low charge bunch for which the beam loading effect can be neglected, the quasi-static approximation is fully validated in the LPA regime. The case of a higher bunch charge, with significant beam loading effects, has also been investigated using an enhanced version of WAKE, named WAKE-EP. Additionally, a cost evaluation, in terms of used energy per calculation, has also been done using the multi-CPU and multi-GPU versions of FBPIC.
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hal-02296227 , version 1 (25-09-2019)

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Viacheslav Kubytskyi, Elsa Baynar, Christelle Bruni, Kevin Cassou, Vincent Chaumat, et al.. Laser-Plasma Acceleration Modeling Approach in the Case of ESCULAP Project.. 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, May 2019, Melbourne, Australia. pp.THPGW059, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPGW059⟩. ⟨hal-02296227⟩
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