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The FLASHForward facility at DESY

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 806; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.nima.2015.10.005

1872-9576

Alexander Aschikhin, C. Behrens, Simon Bohlen, John Dale, N. Delbos, Laura Di Lucchio, E. Elsen, J.-H. Erbe, M. Felber, B. Foster, Lars Goldberg, J. Grebenyuk, J.-N. Gruse, B. Hidding, Zhanghu Hu, S. Karstensen, A. Knetsch, Olena Kononenko, V. Libov, Kai Ludwig, Andreas R. Maier, A. Martínez de la Ossa, Timon Mehrling, C. A. J. Palmer, Fabian Pannek, L. Schaper, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, S. Schreiber, Jan‐Patrick Schwinkendorf, Harry Steel, M. J. V. Streeter, Gabriele Tauscher, V. Wacker, Stefan Weichert, Steffen Wunderlich, Johann Zemella, Jens Osterhoff,

Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications

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 is created by ionising a gas in a gas cell with a multi-TW laser system. The plasma wave will be driven by high-current-density electron beams from the FLASH linear accelerator. The laser system 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 project will explore both external and internal witness-beam injection techniques. The operation parameters of the experiment are discussed, as well as the scientific programme.