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The bunch compression scheme for the European XFEL will operate in a regime in which, at least without additional energy spread introduced by a laser heater, theμbunching effect proposed in the literature may severely degrade the performance of the FEL. However, clear, unambiguous signals of theμbunching effect have not yet been seen neither in simulation nor experiment. The proposedμbunching effect amplifies initial current modulations by interleaved application of longitudinal collective energy kicks and transformations of energy modulation into current modulation in magnetic chicanes. In order to establish a parameter regime for experimental verification ofμbunching at the FLASH VUV-FEL at DESY, we have scanned the relevant part of the parameter space using a linear, quasi-analytic, noise-free gain-model and complemented this with particle tracking simulations. The tracking was performed using interleaved runs of ASTRA for acceleration modules and CSRTrack for the chicanes, automatically linked by the start-to-end simulation tool box Gluetrack.
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