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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
AKBP 11: PWA / TNSA III
AKBP 11.2: Talk
Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 17:00–17:15, F.10.01 (HS 4)
Laser-Plasma Acceleration in Hamburg — •Andreas R. Maier1, 2, Niels Delbos1,2, Irene Dornmair1,2, Klaus Flöttmann3, Vaclav Hanus1,2,4, Spencer Jolly1,2,4, Byunghoon Kim1,2,4, Manuel Kirchen1,2, Vincent Leroux1,2,4, Philipp Messner1,2, Nils Plambeck1,2, Matthias Schnepp1,2, Dominik Trosien1,2, Paul Andreas Walker1,2, Christian Werle1,2, Paul Winkler1,2, Benno Zeitler1,2, and Florian Grüner1,2 — 1CFEL, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22607 Hamburg — 2University of Hamburg, Institute of Experimental Physics, 22761 Hamburg — 3DESY, 22607 Hamburg — 4ELI Beamlines, 18221 Praha 8, Czech Republic
The stability and reproducibility of todays laser-plasma generated electron beams is not comparable to the performance of conventional machines. Within the LAOLA Collaboration, the University of Hamburg and DESY work closely together to combine university research with the expertise of a large and well-established accelerator facility. On behalf of the LAOLA collaboration, we will discuss the experimental programm driven by the recently commissioned 200 TW laser ANGUS. It drives two beamlines, REGAE and LUX, to study external injection of electrons from a conventional gun into a plasma stage, as well as plasma-driven undulator radiation. We provide an overview on the commissioning of the facility and its experiments. As an outlook, we will discuss the experimental strategies in Hamburg towards a first proof-of-principle FEL experiment using plasma-driven electron beams available today.