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This paper presents a brief summary of the contributions to Working Group 5 (WG5): Beam Sources, Monitoring, and Control. This working group was part of the 2018 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop held at Breckenridge, Colorado, from August 12–17, 2018. There was wide-range of topics covered by this working group ranging from facility updates, new diagnostics and instrumentation schemes, new characterization methods and demonstrations (for both plasma and beam) as well as several advanced concepts that fall outside the scope of the other working groups.

A tomographic gas-density diagnostic using a Single-Beam Wollaston Interferometer able to characterize non-symmetric density distributions in gas jets is presented. A real-time tomographic algorithm is able to reconstruct three-dimensional density distributions. A Maximum Likelihood-Expectation Maximization algorithm, an iterative method with good convergence properties compared to simple back projection, is used. With the use of graphical processing units, real-time computation and high resolution are achieved. Two different gas jets are characterized: a kHz, piezo-driven jet for lower densities and a solenoid valve-based jet producing higher densities. While the first jet is used for free electron laser photon beam characterization, the second jet is used in laser wake field acceleration experiments. In this latter application, well-tailored and non-symmetric density distributions produced by a supersonic shock front generated by a razor blade inserted laterally to the gas flow, which breaks cylindrical symmetry, need to be characterized.

Using frequency mixing, a modulated light pulse of ns duration is created. We show that, with a ps-resolution streak camera that is usually used for single short pulse measurements, we can detect via an FFT detection approach up to 450 GHz modulation in a pulse in a single measurement. This work is performed in the context of the AWAKE plasma wakefield experiment where modulation frequencies in the range of 80–280 GHz are expected.

Initiating the gain process in a free-electron laser (FEL) from an external highly coherent source of radiation is a promising way to improve the pulse properties such as temporal coherence and synchronization performance in time-resolved pump-probe experiments at FEL facilities, but this so-called "seeding" suffers from the lack of adequate sources at short wavelengths. We report on the first successful seeding at a wavelength as short as 38.2 nm, resulting in GW-level, coherent FEL radiation pulses at this wavelength as well as significant second harmonic emission at 19.1 nm. The external seed pulses are about 1 order of magnitude shorter compared to previous experiments allowing an ultimate time resolution for the investigation of dynamic processes enabling breakthroughs in ultrafast science with FELs. The seeding pulse is the 21st harmonic of an 800-nm, 15-fs (rms) laser pulse generated in an argon medium. Methods for finding the overlap of seed pulses with electron bunches in spatial, longitudinal, and spectral dimensions are discussed and results are presented. The experiment was conducted at FLASH, the FEL user facility at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. (Less)

The measurement of current-carrying plasma column displacement is very important for plasma position control. Two methods for this purpose are introduced. In this paper, calculation and construction of these coils is explained. Multiple moment method has been used and derived for construction of sensing coils Also Fourier Transform has been used and derived for continuous coils. The comparison of their advantages are investigated. For IR-T1 Tokamak, Two Cosine coils & two Saddle Sine coils were designed and constructed, which have been placed diametrically around minor radius of torus. Then an electronic circuit was designed for adding and integrating the Cosine and Saddle Sine coils output with proper gain. The contribution of each coils in final output is calculated. For compensation of unwanted pickups voltage from the time varying fields each signal with adjustable gain is added to main signal, until removing the additional field effects. The final output holds good proportionality to H.D.

Since displacement is very important for plasma position control, in IR‐T1 tokamak a combination of two cosine coils and two saddle sine coils is used for horizontal displacement measurement. According to the multiple moment theory, the output of these coils linearly depends to radial displacement of plasma column. A new circuit for adding these signals to feedback system designed and unwanted effects of other fields in final output compensated. After compensation and calibration of the system, the output of horizontal displacement circuits applied to feedback control system. By considers the required auxiliary vertical field, a proportional amplifier and driver circuit are constructed to drive power transistors these power transistors switch the feedback bank capacitors. In the experiment, a good linear proportionality between displacement and output observed by applying an appropriate feedback field, the linger confinement time in IR‐T1 tokamak obtained, applying this system to discharge increased the plasma duration and realizes repetitive discharges.