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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
AKBP 4: New Accelerator Concepts
AKBP 4.5: Talk
Monday, March 16, 2020, 17:30–17:45, GÖR 226
Beamline Design Studies for a Laser-Wakefield Driven FEL — •Lars Hübner1, Cora Braun2, Timo Eichner2, Thomas Hülsenbusch2, Sören Jalas2, Laurids Jeppe2, Manuel Kirchen2, Philipp Messner1,3, Matthias Schnepp2, Maximilian Trunk2, Christian Werle1, Paul Winkler1, and Andreas R. Maier2 — 1DESY — 2Center for Free- Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg — 3Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Laser-plasma accelerators are promising candidates to drive compact, laboratory-scale free-electron lasers. However, the unique properties of plasma accelerated electron beams present a challenge to the conventional beam transport and lasing concepts. Here, we present the upgrade of the LUX beamline, that is built and operated by the University of Hamburg and DESY, with the goal of demonstrating FEL gain from a laser-plasma accelerator. The beamline design features a chicane to decompress the electron beam and relax the conditions on the initial beam parameters from the plasma target. The presented concept shows a balancing between the decrease in beam current due to the decompression, the effects of coherent synchrotron radiation in the chicane, and the manipulation of the phase-space to optimize the slice properties of the beam.