Author: Le Bec, G.
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WEPSO05 Progress of the LUNEX5 Project 502
 
  • M.-E. Couprie, C. Benabderrahmane, L. Cassinari, J. Daillant, C. Evain, N. Hubert, M. Labat, A. Loulergue, J. Lüning, P. Marchand, O. Marcouillé, C. Miron, P. Morin, A. Nadji, P. Roy, T. Tanikawa
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • S. Bielawski, M. Le Parquier, E. Roussel, C. Szwaj
    PhLAM/CERCLA, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
  • B. Carré, D. Garzella
    CEA/DSM/DRECAM/SPAM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • N. Delerue
    LAL, Orsay, France
  • G. Devanz
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • A. Dubois
    CCPMR, Paris, France
  • G. Lambert, R. Lehé, V. Malka, C. Thaury
    LOA, Palaiseau, France
  • G. Le Bec
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
  • M. Luong
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
 
  LUNEX5 (free electron Laser Using a New accelerator for the Exploitation of X-ray radiation of 5th generation) aims at investigating the production of short, intense, and coherent pulses in the soft X-ray region, with a 400 MeV superconducting linear accelerator and a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA), feeding a single Free Electron Laser line with seeding with High order Harmonic in Gas and Echo Enable Harmonic Generation. After the Conceptual Design Report (CDR), R&D has been launched on specific magnetic elements (cryo-ready 3 m long in-vacuum undulator, a variable strong permanent magnet quadrupoles), on diagnostics (Smith-Purcell, electro-optics). In recent transport studies from a LWFA with more realistic beam parameters (1 % energy spread, 1 μm size and 1 mrad divergence) than the ones taken in the CDR, a longitudinal and transverse manipulation enables to provide theoretical amplification. A test experiment is under preparation. The French scientific community is increasing its participation to the use of operating FELs.