The SPARTA project aims to design a medium-sized accelerator facility that facilitates new experiments in strong-field quantum electrodynamics using plasma-based accelerators. For this, we need several plasma stages and, therefore, several drivers. Drivers can be either an ultra-relativistic charged particle beam or a high-intensity laser beam. In case we use particle beams, we need a method of distributing these beams from a radio-frequency accelerator to the different plasma stages. A central part of this is a delay scheme that ensures temporal synchronization of the drivers. In this paper, we demonstrate how to achieve a 2 ns delay in ∼12 m, while keeping the first-order beam parameters periodic.
@article{arxiv.2602.20411,
title = {Driver-delay chicanes for a multistage plasma-based accelerator facility},
author = {D. Kalvik and E. Adli and P. Drobniak and F. Peña and C. A. Lindstrøm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20411},
year = {2026}
}
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10 pages, 7 figures. This paper is being submitted to the European Advanced Accelerator Conference proceedings