1. The ACHIP experimental chambers at the Paul Scherrer Institut
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Simona Bettoni, Joshua McNeur, Christian David, Sven Reiche, Martin Bednarzik, F. Frei, Albert Romann, Terence Garvey, Vitaliy A. Guzenko, Simona Borrelli, Blagoj Sarafinov, Hans-Heinrich Braun, Eugenio Ferrari, Nicole Hiller, Eduard Prat, Gian Luca Orlandi, Marco Calvi, Micha Dehler, Rasmus Ischebeck, Leonid Rivkin, Peter Hommelhoff, and Cigdem Ozkan-Loch
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Interaction point ,Positioning system ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Electrical engineering ,Measure (physics) ,Free-electron laser ,Chip ,01 natural sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,010306 general physics ,business ,Instrumentation ,Beam (structure) - Abstract
The Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP) is an international collaboration, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with the goal of demonstrating that laser-driven accelerator can be integrated on a chip to fully build an accelerator based on dielectric structures. PSI will provide access to the high brightness electron beam of SwissFEL to test structures, approaches and methods towards achieving the final goal of the project. In this contribution, we will describe the two interaction chambers installed on SwissFEL to perform the proof-of-principle experiments. In particular, we will present the positioning system for the samples, the magnets needed to focus the beam to sub-micrometer dimensions and the diagnostics to measure beam properties at the interaction point.
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- 2018