1. The FLASHForward Facility at DESY
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Aschikhin, A., Behrens, C., Bohlen, S., Dale, J., Delbos, N., di Lucchio, L., Elsen, E., Erbe, J. -H., Felber, M., Foster, B., Goldberg, L., Grebenyuk, J., Gruse, J. -N., Hidding, B., Hu, Zhanghu, Karstensen, S., Knetsch, A., Kononenko, O., Libov, V., Ludwig, K., Maier, A. R., de la Ossa, A. Martinez, Mehrling, T., Palmer, C. A. J., Pannek, F., Schaper, L., Schlarb, H., Schmidt, B., Schreiber, S., Schwinkendorf, J. -P., Steel, H., Streeter, M., Tauscher, G., Wacker, V., Weichert, S., Wunderlich, S., Zemella, J., and Osterhoff, J.
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Physics - Accelerator Physics - 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., Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures
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- 2015
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