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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik

AKBP 6: New Accelerator Concepts

AKBP 6.5: Talk

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 10:45–11:00, HSZ 301

FLASHForward X-1: High brightness beams from a plasma cathode — •Bridget Sheeran^1,2, A. Aschikhin^1,2, S. Bohlen^1,2, G. Boyle¹, L. Boulton^1,4, R. D'Arcy¹, M. Dinter¹, T. Bruemmer¹, J. Chappel³, S. Diederichs^1,2, B. Foster^1,2, M.J Garland¹, L. Goldberg^1,2, P. Gonzalez^1,2, S. Karstensen¹, A. Knetsch¹, O. Kononenko^1,2, A. Kontogoula^1,2, P. Kuang¹, V. Libov^1,2, C.A Lindstroem¹, K. Ludwig¹, A. Martinez de la Ossa¹, F. Marutzky¹, M. Meisel^1,2, T. Mehrling^1,2, P. Niknejadi¹, K. Poeder¹, P. Pourmoussavi¹, A. Rahali¹, J-H. Roeckemann^1,2, L Schaper¹, A. Schleiermacher¹, B. Schmidt¹, S Schroeder^1,2, J-P. Schwinkendorf^1,2, T. Staufer^1,2, G. Tauscher^1,2, S. Thiele¹, S. Wesch¹, P. Winkler^1,2, J.C Wood¹, M. Zeng¹, and J. Osterhoff¹ — ¹DESY — ²University of Hamburg — ³University College London — ⁴University of Strathclyde

The FLASHForward facility at DESY provides a unique opportunity for the study of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA). At FLASHForward, a several kA electron beam with energies up to 1.25 GeV interacts with a plasma in a dedicated windowless, differentially pumped beamline. The FLASHForward X-1 experiment focuses on the development and study of internal injection techniques to produce ultra-high quality, fs-length electron bunches. Pulses from a 25~TW, fs-class, synchronised laser system allow for selective dual-arm pre-formation of density down-ramp. In this work we present the first demonstration of highly stable internal injection at FLASHForward on density-downramps.