7–12 May 2023
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone

FLASHForward: experimental progress towards an idealised plasma-based energy booster

THODA2
11 May 2023, 09:50
20m
Sala Darsena

Sala Darsena

Contributed Oral Presentation MC3.A22: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration MC03.3 - Novel Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques (Contributed)

Speaker

Judita Beinortaite (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Description

Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration is a promising avenue for future accelerators, where a high electric field gradient could reduce the size and cost of a high-energy physics or a photon-science facility. Successful experimental results in recent decades have demonstrated the feasibility of high-gradient acceleration in plasma. However, to meet the demands of current conventional accelerator users in terms of luminosity and brightness, there are more milestones to reach. Preservation of beam quality, high overall energy-transfer efficiency, and high-average-power operation comprise the three major research pillars of FLASHForward: a plasma-wakefield-acceleration research facility at DESY. Recent results from FLASHForward include per-mille-level energy-spread preservation; high energy-transfer efficiency of 42% from the wake to the accelerating bunch; and the in-principle operation of plasma accelerators at O(10 MHz) inter-bunch repetition rates — all demonstrating promise to shrink the footprint of future accelerator facilities without a loss in functionality or efficacy. In this submission an overview of the facility, recent results, and future outlook are presented.

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Authors

Advait Kanekar (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Brian Foster (University of Oxford) Carl Lindstrøm (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Felipe Peña (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Gregor Loisch (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Gregory Boyle (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Harry Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) James Chappell (University of Oxford) James Garland (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Jens Osterhoff (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Jonas Björklund Svensson (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Jonathan Wood (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Judita Beinortaite (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Lewis Boulton (Cockcroft Institute) Matthew Wing (University College London) Maxence Thévenet (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Pau Gonzalez-Caminal (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Richard D'Arcy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Robert Shalloo (John Adams Institute) Sarah Schroeder (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Severin Diederichs (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Dr Siegfried Schreiber (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Stephan Wesch (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Steven Mewes (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Ángel Ferran Pousa (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

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