@article{e5dd552faf7f44f8bdb70b64b66a51f0,
title = "Controlled Growth of the Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma",
abstract = "A long, narrow, relativistic charged particle bunch propagating in plasma is subject to the self-modulation (SM) instability. We show that SM of a proton bunch can be seeded by the wakefields driven by a preceding electron bunch. SM timing reproducibility and control are at the level of a small fraction of the modulation period. With this seeding method, we independently control the amplitude of the seed wakefields with the charge of the electron bunch and the growth rate of SM with the charge of the proton bunch. Seeding leads to larger growth of the wakefields than in the instability case.",
author = "{(AWAKE Collaboration)} and L. Verra and {Zevi Della Porta}, G. and J. Pucek and T. Nechaeva and S. Wyler and M. Bergamaschi and E. Senes and E. Guran and Moody, {J. T.} and M. Kedves and E. Gschwendtner and P. Muggli and R. Agnello and Ahdida, {C. C.} and Goncalves, {M. C.A.} and Y. Andrebe and O. Apsimon and R. Apsimon and Arnesano, {J. M.} and Bachmann, {A. M.} and D. Barrientos and F. Batsch and V. Bencini and P. Blanchard and Burrows, {P. N.} and B. Buttensch{\"o}n and A. Caldwell and J. Chappell and E. Chevallay and M. Chung and Cooke, {D. A.} and C. Davut and G. Demeter and Dexter, {A. C.} and S. Doebert and Elverson, {F. A.} and J. Farmer and A. Fasoli and V. Fedosseev and R. Fonseca and I. Furno and A. Gorn and E. Granados and M. Granetzny and T. Graubner and O. Grulke and V. Hafych and J. Henderson and M. H{\"u}ther and V. Khudiakov",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the {"}https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/{"}Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.024802",
language = "English",
volume = "129",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "2",
}