TY - EJOUR AU - Lemery, Francois AU - Floettmann, Klaus AU - Piot, Philippe AU - Kärtner, Franz AU - Assmann, Ralph TI - An Adiabatic Phase-Matching Accelerator IS - DESY-17-240 M1 - PUBDB-2018-00768 M1 - DESY-17-240 M1 - FERMILAB-PUB-17-610-APC M1 - arXiv:1712.08403 PY - 2018 AB - We present a general concept to accelerate non-relativistic charged particles. Our concept employs an adiabatically-tapered dielectric-lined waveguide which supports accelerating phase velocities for synchronous acceleration. We propose an ansatz for the transient field equations, show it satisfies Maxwell's equations under an adiabatic approximation and find excellent agreement with a finite-difference time-domain computer simulation. The fields were implemented into the particle-tracking program astra and we present beam dynamics results for an accelerating field with a 1-mm-wavelength and peak electric field of 100 MV/m. The numerical simulations indicate that a ∼ 200-keV electron beam can be accelerated to an energy of ∼ 10 MeV over ∼ 10 cm. The novel scheme is also found to form electron beams with parameters of interest to a wide range of applications including, e.g., future advanced accelerators, and ultra-fast electron diffraction. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)29 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2018-00768 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/399587 ER -