IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Ferrario, M.)

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Characterization of ps-spaced Comb Beams at SPARC

1527

A. Mostacci
URLS, Rome, Italy
A. Bacci, A.R. Rossi
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy
M. Bellaveglia, E. Chiadroni, G. Di Pirro, M. Ferrario, G. Gatti, C. Vaccarezza
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
A. Cianchi
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
C. Ronsivalle
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy

SPARC in Frascati is a high brightness photo-injector used to explore advanced beam manipulation techniques. Sub-picosecond, high brightness electron bunch trains (the so called comb beam) can be generated illuminating the cathode of a RF photoinjector with a laser pulse train and via velocity bunching technique. In this paper different aspects of the physics of this advanced beam manipulation technique are discussed combining simulation and measurements. Beam dynamics numerical macroparticle simulations have been compared with the experimental results for model validation; they allow to gain insights on the beam evolution highlighting several aspects which can not be measured. In particular, we focus on the train evolution in the linac sections and in the dog-leg line up to the THz station and on the effective rms length of the single pulses within the train when it becomes shorter than the resolution.

WEEPPB002

Plasma Acceleration Experiment at SPARC_LAB with External Injection

2169

L. Serafini, A. Bacci
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy
M. Bellaveglia, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, G. Di Pirro, M. Ferrario, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A.R. Rossi, C. Vaccarezza
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
A. Cianchi
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
C. Maroli, V. Petrillo
Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
A. Mostacci
URLS, Rome, Italy
P. Tomassini
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

At the SPARC-LAB facility of INFN-LNF we are installing two transport lines for ultra-short electron bunches and an ultra-intense laser pulses, generated by the SPARC photo-injector and by the FLAME laser in a synchronized fashion at the tens of fs level, to co-propagate inside a hydrogen filled glass capillary, in order to perform acceleration of the electron bunch by a plasma wave driven by the laser pulse. The main aim of this experiment is to demonstrate that a high brightness electron beam can be accelerated by a plasma wave without any significant degradation of its quality. A 10 pC electron bunch, 10 fs long is produced by SPARC and transported to injection into the capillary, which is 100 micron wide, at a gas density around 5*10¹⁷ ne/cm³ . The laser pulse, 25 fs long, focused down to 30 microns into the capillary is injected ahead of the bunch, drives a weakly non-linear plasma wave with wavelength of about 120 microns. A proper phasing of the two pulses allows acceleration of electrons from the injection energy of 150 MeV up to about 1 GeV for a 10 cm long capillary. Installation of the beam lines is foreseen by the end of 2012 and first tests starting in mid 2013.

WEPPP017

Recent Results at the SPARC_LAB Facility

2758

M. Ferrario, D. Alesini, M.P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia, R. Boni, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, A. Gallo, C. Gatti, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, T. Levato, E. Pace, L. Pellegrino, R. Pompili, A.R. Rossi, B. Spataro, P. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, F. Villa
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
A. Bacci, C. De Martinis, L. Serafini
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy
A. Cianchi
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
G. Dattoli, E. Di Palma, L. Giannessi, A. Petralia, M. Quattromini, C. Ronsivalle, I.P. Spassovsky, V. Surrenti
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
D. Di Giovenale
INFN-Roma II, Roma, Italy
U. Dosselli
INFN, Roma, Italy
R. Faccini
INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy
R. Fedele
Naples University Federico II, Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences Faculty, Napoli, Italy
M. Gambaccini
INFN-Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
D. Giulietti
UNIPI, Pisa, Italy
L.A. Gizzi, L. Labate
CNR/IPP, Pisa, Italy
P. Londrillo
INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
S. Lupi
Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
G. Passaleva
INFN-FI, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
V. Petrillo
Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
J.V. Rau
ISM-CNR, Rome, Italy
G. Turchetti
Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

A new facility named SPARC_LAB (Sources for Plasma Accelerators and Radiation Compton with Lasers and Beams) has been recently launched at the INFN National Labs in Frascati, merging the potentialities of the old projects SPARC and PLASMONX. The SPARC project, a collaboration among INFN, ENEA and CNR, is now completed, hosting a 150 MeV high brightness electron beam injector which feeds a 12 meters long undulator. Observation of FEL radiation in the SASE, Seeded and HHG modes has been performed from 500 nm down to 40 nm wevelength. A second beam line has been also installed to drive a narrow band THz radiation source. In parallel to that, INFN decided to host a 300 TW laser that will be linked to the linac and devoted to explore laser-matter interaction, in particular with regard to laser-plasma acceleration in the self injection and external injection modes, (the PLASMONX experiments). The facility will be also used for particle driven plasma acceleration experiments (the COMB experiment). A Thomson scattering experiment coupling the electron bunch to the high-power laser to generate coherent monochromatic X-ray radiation is also in the commissioning phase.

TUOBB01

A European Proposal for the Compton Gamma-ray Source of ELI-NP

1086

L. Serafini, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, V. Petrillo
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy
O. Adriani, G. Graziani, G. Passaleva
INFN-FI, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
S. Albergo, A. Tricomi
INFN-CT, Catania, Italy
D. Alesini, M.P. Anania, A. Bacci, R. Bedogni, M. Bellaveglia, C. Biscari, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, A. Clozza, E. Di Pasquale, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, F. Marcellini, C. Maroli, G. Mazzitelli, E. Pace, L. Pellegrino, R. Ricci, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, P. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, S. Vescovi, F. Villa
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
D. Angal-Kalinin, J.A. Clarke, B.D. Fell, A.R. Goulden, J.D. Herbert, S.P. Jamison, P.A. McIntosh, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
P. Antici, M. Coppola, L. Lancia, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo
URLS, Rome, Italy
N. Bliss, B.G. Martlew
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
P. Cardarelli, M. Gambaccini
INFN-Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
L. Catani, A. Cianchi
INFN-Roma II, Roma, Italy
I. Chaikovska, O. Dadoun, A. Stocchi, A. Variola, Z.F. Zomer
LAL, Orsay, France
C. De Martinis
INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI), Italy
F. Druon, P. Fichot
ILE, Palaiseau Cedex, France
E. Iarocci
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
M. Migliorati
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
A.-S. Müller
IN2P3, Paris, France
V. Nardone
Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
C. Ronsivalle
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
M. Veltri
Uniurb, Urbino (PU), Italy

A European proposal is under preparation for the Compton gamma-ray Source of ELI-NP. In the Romanian pillar of ELI (the European Extreme Light Infrastructure) an advanced gamma-ray beam is foreseen, coupled to two 10 PW laser systems. The photons will be generated by Compton back-scattering in the collision between a high quality electron beam and a high power laser. A European collaboration formed by INFN, Univ. of Roma La Sapienza, Orsay-LAL of IN2P3, Univ. de Paris Sud XI and ASTeC at Daresbury, is preparing a TDR exploring the feasibility of a machine expected to achieve the Gamma-ray beam specifications: energy tunable between 1 and 20 MeV, narrow bandwidth (0.3%) and high spectral density, 10⁴ photons/sec/eV. We will describe the lay-out of the 720 MeV RF Linac and the collision laser with the associated optical cavity, as well as the optimized beam dynamics to achieve maximum phase space density at the collision, taking into account beam loading and beam break-up due to the acceleration of long bunch trains. The predicted gamma-ray spectra will be evaluated as the gamma photons collimators background. An option for electron bunches recirculation will also be illustrated.

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Paper	Title	Page
TUPPD055	Characterization of ps-spaced Comb Beams at SPARC	1527
	A. Mostacci URLS, Rome, Italy A. Bacci, A.R. Rossi Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy M. Bellaveglia, E. Chiadroni, G. Di Pirro, M. Ferrario, G. Gatti, C. Vaccarezza INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy A. Cianchi Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy C. Ronsivalle ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	SPARC in Frascati is a high brightness photo-injector used to explore advanced beam manipulation techniques. Sub-picosecond, high brightness electron bunch trains (the so called comb beam) can be generated illuminating the cathode of a RF photoinjector with a laser pulse train and via velocity bunching technique. In this paper different aspects of the physics of this advanced beam manipulation technique are discussed combining simulation and measurements. Beam dynamics numerical macroparticle simulations have been compared with the experimental results for model validation; they allow to gain insights on the beam evolution highlighting several aspects which can not be measured. In particular, we focus on the train evolution in the linac sections and in the dog-leg line up to the THz station and on the effective rms length of the single pulses within the train when it becomes shorter than the resolution.

WEEPPB002	Plasma Acceleration Experiment at SPARC_LAB with External Injection	2169
	L. Serafini, A. Bacci Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy M. Bellaveglia, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, G. Di Pirro, M. Ferrario, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A.R. Rossi, C. Vaccarezza INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy A. Cianchi Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy C. Maroli, V. Petrillo Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy A. Mostacci URLS, Rome, Italy P. Tomassini Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
	At the SPARC-LAB facility of INFN-LNF we are installing two transport lines for ultra-short electron bunches and an ultra-intense laser pulses, generated by the SPARC photo-injector and by the FLAME laser in a synchronized fashion at the tens of fs level, to co-propagate inside a hydrogen filled glass capillary, in order to perform acceleration of the electron bunch by a plasma wave driven by the laser pulse. The main aim of this experiment is to demonstrate that a high brightness electron beam can be accelerated by a plasma wave without any significant degradation of its quality. A 10 pC electron bunch, 10 fs long is produced by SPARC and transported to injection into the capillary, which is 100 micron wide, at a gas density around 5*10¹⁷ ne/cm³ . The laser pulse, 25 fs long, focused down to 30 microns into the capillary is injected ahead of the bunch, drives a weakly non-linear plasma wave with wavelength of about 120 microns. A proper phasing of the two pulses allows acceleration of electrons from the injection energy of 150 MeV up to about 1 GeV for a 10 cm long capillary. Installation of the beam lines is foreseen by the end of 2012 and first tests starting in mid 2013.

WEPPP017	Recent Results at the SPARC_LAB Facility	2758
	M. Ferrario, D. Alesini, M.P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia, R. Boni, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, A. Gallo, C. Gatti, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, T. Levato, E. Pace, L. Pellegrino, R. Pompili, A.R. Rossi, B. Spataro, P. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, F. Villa INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy A. Bacci, C. De Martinis, L. Serafini Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy A. Cianchi Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy G. Dattoli, E. Di Palma, L. Giannessi, A. Petralia, M. Quattromini, C. Ronsivalle, I.P. Spassovsky, V. Surrenti ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy D. Di Giovenale INFN-Roma II, Roma, Italy U. Dosselli INFN, Roma, Italy R. Faccini INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy R. Fedele Naples University Federico II, Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences Faculty, Napoli, Italy M. Gambaccini INFN-Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy D. Giulietti UNIPI, Pisa, Italy L.A. Gizzi, L. Labate CNR/IPP, Pisa, Italy P. Londrillo INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy S. Lupi Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma, Italy A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo Rome University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy G. Passaleva INFN-FI, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy V. Petrillo Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy J.V. Rau ISM-CNR, Rome, Italy G. Turchetti Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
	A new facility named SPARC_LAB (Sources for Plasma Accelerators and Radiation Compton with Lasers and Beams) has been recently launched at the INFN National Labs in Frascati, merging the potentialities of the old projects SPARC and PLASMONX. The SPARC project, a collaboration among INFN, ENEA and CNR, is now completed, hosting a 150 MeV high brightness electron beam injector which feeds a 12 meters long undulator. Observation of FEL radiation in the SASE, Seeded and HHG modes has been performed from 500 nm down to 40 nm wevelength. A second beam line has been also installed to drive a narrow band THz radiation source. In parallel to that, INFN decided to host a 300 TW laser that will be linked to the linac and devoted to explore laser-matter interaction, in particular with regard to laser-plasma acceleration in the self injection and external injection modes, (the PLASMONX experiments). The facility will be also used for particle driven plasma acceleration experiments (the COMB experiment). A Thomson scattering experiment coupling the electron bunch to the high-power laser to generate coherent monochromatic X-ray radiation is also in the commissioning phase.

TUOBB01	A European Proposal for the Compton Gamma-ray Source of ELI-NP	1086
	L. Serafini, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, V. Petrillo Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy O. Adriani, G. Graziani, G. Passaleva INFN-FI, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy S. Albergo, A. Tricomi INFN-CT, Catania, Italy D. Alesini, M.P. Anania, A. Bacci, R. Bedogni, M. Bellaveglia, C. Biscari, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, A. Clozza, E. Di Pasquale, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, F. Marcellini, C. Maroli, G. Mazzitelli, E. Pace, L. Pellegrino, R. Ricci, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, P. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, S. Vescovi, F. Villa INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy D. Angal-Kalinin, J.A. Clarke, B.D. Fell, A.R. Goulden, J.D. Herbert, S.P. Jamison, P.A. McIntosh, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom P. Antici, M. Coppola, L. Lancia, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo URLS, Rome, Italy N. Bliss, B.G. Martlew STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom P. Cardarelli, M. Gambaccini INFN-Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy L. Catani, A. Cianchi INFN-Roma II, Roma, Italy I. Chaikovska, O. Dadoun, A. Stocchi, A. Variola, Z.F. Zomer LAL, Orsay, France C. De Martinis INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI), Italy F. Druon, P. Fichot ILE, Palaiseau Cedex, France E. Iarocci University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy M. Migliorati Rome University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy A.-S. Müller IN2P3, Paris, France V. Nardone Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma, Italy C. Ronsivalle ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy M. Veltri Uniurb, Urbino (PU), Italy
	A European proposal is under preparation for the Compton gamma-ray Source of ELI-NP. In the Romanian pillar of ELI (the European Extreme Light Infrastructure) an advanced gamma-ray beam is foreseen, coupled to two 10 PW laser systems. The photons will be generated by Compton back-scattering in the collision between a high quality electron beam and a high power laser. A European collaboration formed by INFN, Univ. of Roma La Sapienza, Orsay-LAL of IN2P3, Univ. de Paris Sud XI and ASTeC at Daresbury, is preparing a TDR exploring the feasibility of a machine expected to achieve the Gamma-ray beam specifications: energy tunable between 1 and 20 MeV, narrow bandwidth (0.3%) and high spectral density, 10⁴ photons/sec/eV. We will describe the lay-out of the 720 MeV RF Linac and the collision laser with the associated optical cavity, as well as the optimized beam dynamics to achieve maximum phase space density at the collision, taking into account beam loading and beam break-up due to the acceleration of long bunch trains. The predicted gamma-ray spectra will be evaluated as the gamma photons collimators background. An option for electron bunches recirculation will also be illustrated.
	Slides TUOBB01 [5.099 MB]