The FLASHForward Facility at DESY
Abstract
The FLASHForward project at DESY is a pioneering plasma-wakefield acceleration experiment that aims to produce, in a few centimetres of ionised hydrogen, beams with energy of order GeV that are of quality sufficient to be used in a free-electron laser. The plasma wave will be driven by high-current density electron beams from the FLASH linear accelerator and will explore both external and internal witness-beam injection techniques. The plasma is created by ionising a gas in a gas cell with a multi-TW laser system, which can also be used to provide optical diagnostics of the plasma and electron beams due to the <30 fs synchronisation between the laser and the driving electron beam. The operation parameters of the experiment are discussed, as well as the scientific program.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.03192,
title = {The FLASHForward Facility at DESY},
author = {A. Aschikhin and C. Behrens and S. Bohlen and J. Dale and N. Delbos and L. di Lucchio and E. Elsen and J. -H. Erbe and M. Felber and B. Foster and L. Goldberg and J. Grebenyuk and J. -N. Gruse and B. Hidding and Zhanghu Hu and S. Karstensen and A. Knetsch and O. Kononenko and V. Libov and K. Ludwig and A. R. Maier and A. Martinez de la Ossa and T. Mehrling and C. A. J. Palmer and F. Pannek and L. Schaper and H. Schlarb and B. Schmidt and S. Schreiber and J. -P. Schwinkendorf and H. Steel and M. Streeter and G. Tauscher and V. Wacker and S. Weichert and S. Wunderlich and J. Zemella and J. Osterhoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03192},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
19 pages, 9 figures