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Feasibility study for the hard x-ray free electron laser based on synergistic use of conventional and plasma accelerator technologies

Accelerator Physics 2022-11-01 v1 Plasma Physics

Abstract

We access the possibility of using the conventional RF accelerator as an injector for the plasma driven wakefield accelerator. Conventional accelerators deliver high quality beams with low emittance and low energy spread. Once injected into the plasma wake, the emittance may be preserved upon proper beam matching while the energy spread may not due to long beam duration delivered by the conventional accelerators. Parameters of the overall accelerator system and the free electron laser based on such an accelerator are estimated.

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@article{arxiv.2210.16425,
  title  = {Feasibility study for the hard x-ray free electron laser based on synergistic use of conventional and plasma accelerator technologies},
  author = {Nikolai Yampolsky and Sandra Biedron and Bjorn Manuel Hegelich and Scott Luedtke and Evgenya Simakov and Stephen Milton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16425},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Internal report from Los Alamos National Laboratory. LA-UR-22-30406