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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik

AKBP 1: New Accelerator Concepts I

AKBP 1.4: Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 15:45–16:00, MOL 213

Research activities and capabilities at the DRACO laser system — Florian Brack^1,2, Lennart Gaus^1,2, Alexander Jahn^1,2, Thomas Kluge¹, Stephan Kraft¹, Florian Kroll^1,2, Josefine Metzkes¹, Lieselotte Obst^1,2, Martin Rehwald^1,2, •Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt¹, Karl Zeil¹, Tim Ziegler^1,2, and Ulrich Schramm^1,2 — ¹Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden -- Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany — ²Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Since 2014, the DRACO laser system of HZDR got back into operation with both its original 150 TW beam and the new 1 PW beam. Its main goal is to study novel, laser-driven, plasma-based acceleration concepts and their potential to medical applications. Highlight experiments for ion acceleration were using a cryogenic hydrogen jet as pure proton, near-critical-density target with high repetition rate capability (collaboration with SLAC and European XFEL), ultra-thin liquid-film targets in combination with a laser pulse contrast cleaning technique (collaboration with Ohio State University), the implementation of a pulsed-solenoid-based proton beamline for in-vivo cell irradiation experiments as well as the first shots with a full PW laser beam.