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TY - CONF AU - Marocchino, A. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Makino, Kyoko ED - Snopok, Pavel ED - Berz, Martin TI - Plasma Wakefield Start to End Acceleration Simulations From Photocathode to FEL With Simulated Density Profiles J2 - Proc. of ICAP2018, Key West, FL, USA, 20-24 October 2018 CY - Key West, FL, USA T2 - International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference T3 - 13 LA - english AB - Plasma Wakefield acceleration is a promising new acceleration technique that profit by a charged bunch, e.g. an electron bunch, to break the neutrality of a plasma channel to produce a wake where a trailing bunch is eventually accelerated. The quest to achieve extreme gradient conserving high brightness has prompted to a variety of new approaches and techniques. Most of the proposed schemes are however limited to the only plasma channel, assuming in the vast majority of cases, ideal scenarios (e.g. ideal bi-gaussian bunches and uniform density plasma channels). Realistic start-to-end simulations from the photocathode to a FEL via a plasma accelerating section are a fundamental step to further investigate realistic scheme possibilities, the underlying physics and future applications. To remove ideal simplifications, the SPARC_LAB simulation team is simulating bunches from the photo-cathode and tracking them all the way to the plasma. Similarly, the density profiles, where bunches evolve and accelerate, are calculated with a magneto-hydrodynamic code. The density profile is imported into the particle in cell codes used to calculate the particle evolution within the plasma section. The use of a multitude of codes, involving different architectures, physical units and programming languages, made necessary the definition of code interfacing and pipe-processes to ensure a proper pipeline of tools that are traditionally used in different fields are do not often come across. By combining the different numerical codes (particle tracker, particle in cell, magneto-hydrodynamics and FEL codes) we could propose a first realistic start-to-end simulation from the photo-cathode to a FEL lasering for a possible upcoming Italian PWFA-FEL facility. Such a work is conducted with a great focus on code reliability and data reproducibility. The Italian PWFA experimental team uses a capillary to control and tailor the plasma density profile, we could perform preliminary code comparison and PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 154 EP - 159 KW - plasma KW - electron KW - acceleration KW - FEL KW - simulation DA - 2019/01 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-200-4 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-ICAP2018-MOPAG01 UR - http://jacow.org/icap2018/papers/mopag01.pdf ER -