Author: Mandry, S.R.
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TUPME079 A Spectrometer for Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerated Electrons at AWAKE 1540
 
  • S. Jolly, L.C. Deacon, J.A. Goodhand, S.R. Mandry, M. Wing
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • S.R. Mandry
    MPI, Muenchen, Germany
 
  The AWAKE experiment is to be constructed at the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso facility (CNGS). This will be the first experiment to demonstrate electron acceleration by use of a proton driven plasma wakefield. The 400 GeV proton beam from the CERN SPS will excite a wakefield in a plasma cell several metres in length. To observe the plasma wakefield, electrons of a few MeV will be injected into the wakefield following the head of the proton beam. Simulations indicate that electrons will be accelerated to GeV energies by the plasma wakefield. The AWAKE spectrometer is intended to measure both the peak energy and energy spread of these accelerated electrons. The baseline design makes use of a single dipole magnet to separate the electrons from the proton beam. The dispersed electron beam then impacts on a scintillator screen: the resulting scintillation light is collected and recorded by an intensified CCD camera. The design of the spectrometer is detailed with a focus on the scintillator screen. Results of simulations to optimise the scintillator are presented, including studies of the standard GadOx scintillators commonly used for imaging electrons in plasma wakefield experiments.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-TUPME079  
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