Published results of LCODE simulations

• B.N.Breizman, P.Z.Chebotaev, A.M.Kudryavtsev, K.V.Lotov, and A.N.Skrinsky, Self-Focused Particle Beam Drivers for Plasma Wakefield Accelerators. In: New modes of particle acceleration -- techniques and sources, AIP Conference Proceedings, edited by Z.Parsa, v.396, p.75-88 (AIP Press, New York, 1997).
  Optimization of the bunch train with a given peak current and explanation why the optimum train looks like that.
• K.V.Lotov, Simulation of ultrarelativistic beam dynamics in plasma wake-field accelerator. Phys. Plasmas, 1998, v.5, p.785-791.
  Long-term dynamics of the bunch train.
• A.M.Kudryavtsev, K.V.Lotov, and A.N.Skrinsky, Plasma wake-field acceleration of high energies: Physics and perspectives. Nuclear Instr. Methods A, v.410 (1998), p.388-395.
  Simulation of 10 GeV acceleration stage with attention to the energy spread; self-modulation of a long beam; simulation of the proposed VEPP-2M wakefield experiment.
• K.V.Lotov, Simulation of ultrarelativistic beam dynamics in the plasma wake-field accelerator. Nuclear Instr. Methods A, v.410 (1998), p.461-468.
  Optimization of a bunch train for high efficiency and low energy spread; self-cleaning of the bunch train; fatal instability of the long shaped driver.
• K.V.Lotov, Instability of long driving beams in plasma wakefield accelerators. Proc. 6th European Particle Accelerator Conference (Stockholm, 1998), p.806-808.
  Self-organization of long beams in plasmas due to the transverse two-stream instability.
• K.Lotov and G.Stupakov, Single-bunch instability of positron beams in electron cloud. Proc. 8th European Particle Accelerator Conference (Paris, 2002), p.1643-1645.
  Dynamics of a rarefied electron cloud in the field of a positron beam
• K.V.Lotov, Fine wakefield structure in the blowout regime of plasma wakefield accelerators. Phys. Rev. ST - Accel. Beams, v.6 (2003), N 6, p.061301.
  Plasma and field behaviour near the end of the cavern in the blowout regime; temperature effect on maximum accelerating field in this regime.
• K.V.Lotov, Blowout regimes of plasma wakefield acceleration. Phys. Rev. E, v.69 (2004), N 4, p.046405.
  Sub-regimes of the blowout regime; energy flux as a measure of beam-plasma energy exchange; analytical approximations for the plasma response in the strong beam sub-regime.
• A.V.Burdakov, A.M.Kudryavtsev, P.V.Logatchov, K.V.Lotov, A.V.Petrenko, and A.N.Skrinsky, Design of an Experiment on Wakefield Acceleration on the VEPP-5 Injection Complex. Plasma Physics Reports, v.31 (2005), N 4, p.292-299.
  Simulation of Novosibirsk PWFA project (efficient blowout regime).