Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2016 / S19 / 3 / a / Solution

TODO — the source does not supply the longitudinal position-energy correlation, imposed chirp, or chicane dispersion/geometry needed for a unique compressed bunch length. A four-bend drawing and an uncorrelated energy spread are insufficient. In linear optics,If the given spread is uncorrelated, the minimum is the unchanged 0.2 m, not a compressed submillimetre bunch. If a chirp is supplied, optimal $R_{56}$ depends on it and on the uncorrelated residual spread.

A sometimes intended phase-space lower-bound estimate conserves longitudinal emittance and permits final relative energy spread of order unity, giving ${\sigma }_{zf}\gtrsim {\sigma }_z{\sigma }_{\delta }\sim 20\mu$m. This is an additional extreme energy-spread allowance, not a consequence of an unspecified magnetic chicane. If one illustratively matches a plasma scale $k_p{\sigma }_{zf}\sim 1$, then $n_e\sim {ϵ}_0{m}_e{c}^2/(e^2{\sigma }_{zf}^2)\simeq 7\times 10^{22}$ m${}^{-3}$. Matching to a whole wavelength instead changes this by $4{\pi }^2$. The parametric density relation is valid; the unique requested numerical compression is not established by the source.