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A room temperature heavy ion linac has been proposed as a new injector of CSRm (the main Cooler Storage Ring) at HIRFL (Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou), which is expected to improve the performance of HIRFL. The linac injector can…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xiaohu Zhang , Youjin Yuan , Jiawen Xia , Xuejun Yin , Dayu Yin , Xiaoni Li , Xiucui Xie , Heng Du , zhongshan Li

We study proton acceleration from a foil target with a transversely varying density using multi-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations. In order to reduce electron heating and deformation of the target, circularly polarized Gaussian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. P. Yu , M. Chen , A. Pukhov

This document describes the concept of a primary electron beam facility at CERN, to be used for dark gauge force and light dark matter searches. The electron beam is produced in three stages: A Linac accelerates electrons from a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 T. Åkesson , Y. Dutheil , L. Evans , A. Grudiev , Y. Papaphilippou , S. Stapnes

Positron sources are the key elements for the future and current lepton collider projects such as ILC, CLIC, SuperKEKB, FCC-ee, Muon Collider/LEMMA, etc., introducing challenging critical requirements for high intensity and low emittance…

This project proposes to reuse the DAFNE accelerator complex for producing a high intensity (up to 10^10), high-quality beam of high-energy (up to 500 MeV) positrons for HEP experiments, mainly - but not only - motivated by light dark…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Paolo Valente

Electron-positron pairs, produced in intense laser-solid interactions, are diagnosed using magnetic spectrometers with image plates, such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Electron Positron Proton Spectrometers (EPPS). Although…

Nearby electron/positron accelerators, mostly Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), have been proposed as potential origins of the positron excess above 10 GeV. The HAWC Observatory reveals two very extended sources spatially coincident with two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hao Zhou , Rubén López-Coto , Francisco Salesa Greus

We present two compact ultrafast electron injector designs with integrated focusing that provide high peak brightness of up to $1.9*10^{12} A/m^2Sr^2$ with 10s of electrons per laser pulse using silicon carbide electrodes and silicon…

Three alternative designs of the European Spallation Source (ESS) high energy linac are described. The most promising ones are either a normalconducting (nc) coupled cavity linac (CCL) up tofinal energy or a change at 407 MeV to only one…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pabst , K. Bongardt , A. Letchford

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized positrons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating two-color petawatt laser pulse is investigated theoretically. Our Monte Carlo simulation based on a…

We investigate electrostatic traps as a novel source of positron beams for accelerator physics applications. Penning-Malmberg (PM) traps are commonly employed in low-energy antimatter experiments. Positrons contained in the trap are cooled…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Rafi Hessami , Spencer Gessner

We report on an experimental demonstration of laser wakefield electron acceleration using a sub-TW power laser by tightly focusing 30-fs laser pulses with only 8 mJ pulse energy on a 100 \mu m scale gas target. The experiments are carried…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Z. -H. He , B. Hou , J. H. Easter , K. Krushelnick , J. A. Nees , A. G. R. Thomas

The paper reports the results of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of proton beam acceleration at the interactions of a 130 fs laser pulse of intensity from the range of 10^21-10^23 W/cm^2, predicted for the Extreme Light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Jaroslaw Domanski , Jan Badziak , Slawomir Jablonski

Structures and parameters of some high and low temperature superconductors (HTSC, LTSC) are considered basing on the alternative estimate of the O2- ion radius magnitude (0.5-0.6) A. Phase transitions into the superconducting state are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Bogomolov

This paper describes the concept of a primary electron beam facility at CERN, to be used for dark gauge force and light dark matter searches. The electron beam is produced in three stages: A Linac accelerates electrons from a photo-cathode…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 T. Åkesson , R. Corsini , Y. Dutheil , L. Evans , B. Goddard , A. Grudiev , A. Latina , Y. Papaphilippou , S. Stapnes

A dedicated clinical synchrotron facility for cancer therapy using energetic proton and ion beams (C, He and O) has been designed at GSI for the Radiologische Universitaetsklinik at Heidelberg, Germany. The design of the injector linac is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Schlitt , A. Bechtold , U. Ratzinger , A. Schempp

Charged particle therapy, or so-called hadrontherapy, is developing very rapidly. There is large pressure on the scientific community to deliver dedicated accelerators, providing the best possible treatment modalities at the lowest cost. In…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 A. Garonna , U. Amaldi , R. Bonomi , D. Campo , A. Degiovanni , M. Garlasché , I. Mondino , V. Rizzoglio , S. Verdú Andrés

The article considers an opportunity of simultaneous pulsed acceleration of seven proton beams with current one hundred milliamps in each beam. The accelerator consists of two parts. In the first part of the accelerator having the length…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 S. N. Dolya

A method for the generation of ultrarelativistic electron beams with high spin polarization is put forward, where a tightly-focused linearly-polarized ultraintense laser pulse interacts with a nonprepolarized transverse-size-tailored solid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Shen , Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel