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Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) are promising candidates for next-generation colliders due to their ability to sustain extremely high acceleration gradients. Laser-ionized plasma sources offer key advantages for PWFA, including precise control over the transverse and longitudinal plasma density profiles for emittance preservation, tunable plasma column widths suited for positron acceleration, and resilience to heat deposition. A critical experimental challenge, however, is the precise alignment of the plasma source to the electron beam and maintaining that alignment over time. We report on a novel alignment technique developed at the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests II (FACET-II), enabling high-precision alignment of a 1-meter-long laser-ionized plasma source to a 10 GeV, 1.6 nC electron beam with a transverse accuracy better than 10 µm, limited primarily by laser pointing jitter. We present our methodology, discuss the alignment tolerances between the drive beam and the laser-ionized plasma, and explore future opportunities for using narrow plasma columns for positron acceleration.
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