First Electron Beam Measurements on COXINEL

The ERC grant COXINEL aims at demonstrating experimentally Free Electron Laser (FEL) amplification with electrons generated by laser plasma acceleration (LPA). Because of the still limited electron beam performance (especially energy spread and divergence) in view of the FEL requirements, the electron beam transfer line has been specifically designed with adequate diagnostics and strong focusing variable strength permanent magnet quadrupoles, an energy de-mixing chicane and second set of quadrupoles for further dedicated focusing in the FEL interaction region, in a U20 in-vacuum undulator, enabling to operate at 200 nm with a 180 MeV electron beam. The first observation and transport of electrons in the COXINEL line is presented here.
Proceedings of the 7th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2016, Busan, Korea