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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik

AKBP 5: New Accelerator Concepts - Experimental Results

AKBP 5.1: Group Report

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 09:30–10:00, E 020

Status and progress of the PWFA experiment FLASHForward — •Stephan Wesch¹, Judita Beinortait^1,2, Jonas Björklund Svensson¹, Lewis Boulton¹, Gregory Boyle³, James Chappell⁴, James Cowley⁴, Severin Diederichs¹, Brian Foster^1,4, Matthew Garland¹, Pau González Caminal¹, Harry Jones¹, Advait Kanekar^1,6, Carl Lindstrøm⁵, Gregor Loisch¹, Mathis Mewes¹, Jens Osterhoff^1,6, Felipe Peña^1,6, Angel Ferran Pousa¹, Siegfried Schreiber¹, Sarah Schröder¹, Rob Shalloo¹, Maxence Thévenet¹, Matthew Wing^1,2, Jonathan Wood¹, and Richard D'Arcy^1,4 — ¹Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotro DESY, Hamburg, Germany — ²University College London, United Kingdom — ³James Cook University, Australia — ⁴University of Oxford, United Kingdom — ⁵University of Oslo, Norway — ⁶Universität Hamburg, Germany

Experimental results in the last decades of beam-driven plasma-wakefield accelerators (PWFA) have demonstrated the feasibility of high-gradient acceleration and promise reduction of costs and sizes of future high-energy facilities. The requirements of current users of accelerators for luminosity and brightness cannot yet be met in terms of beam quality, high overall energy-transfer efficiency and operation at high-average-power. These are major research pillars which the PWFA experiment FLASHForward at DESY aims to combine in a single stage at acceleration gradients >1 GV/m with significant energy gain. Here, we present the status of the experiment and show latest results.

Keywords: Plasma Wakefield Accelerator; PWFA