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Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons (LWFA) has emerged as one of the most transformative directions in compact accelerator research, offering ultrashort, high-brightness electron bunches and intrinsically synchronized broadband X-ray emission. At the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (ELI ERIC), 4 dedicated LWFA electron beamlines have been already commissioned in the past 2 years. The ALFA and eSYLOS beamlines are driven by TW-class, 1 kHz laser systems, delivering kA electron beams for radio-biology experiments and generation of tertiary particle sources (positrons, neutrons). The ELBA and ePW beamlines are driven by PW-class, multi-Hz laser systems outputting multi-GeV electron beams with up to nC charge. These beamlines are offered in the ELI ERIC User programme*, either as dedicated electron accelerators or as experimental platforms for novel acceleration schemes, machine learning optimisation and targetry/diagnostics testing, providing Users with unique electron beam characteristics.
The ALFA and eSYLOS beamlines deliver 50+ MeV, 50+ pC e- beams at 1 kHz, with most experiments, thus far, performed on irradiation on zebra fish embryos, demonstrating significant differences to conventional LINAC irradiation, and providing deeper insights into ultra-high dose rate regimes. The ELBA and ePW beamlines deliver e- beams, with tunable energy from 0.1 to 5+ GeV, 400+ pC at 3.3 and 5 Hz (respectively), focusing on QED studies (ELBA) and VHEE therapy investigations (ePW).
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*https://up.eli-laser.eu/call/1723203616
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