Author: Indorg, G.
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TUPIK006 FLASHForward - A Future-Oriented Wakefield-Accelerator Research and Development Facility at FLASH 1692
 
  • R.T.P. D'Arcy, A. Aschikhin, C. Behrens, S. Bohlen, J. Dale, L. Di Lucchio, M. Felber, B. Foster, L. Goldberg, J.-N. Gruse, Z. Hu, G. Indorg, S. Karstensen, O. S. Kononenko, V. Libov, K. Ludwig, A. Martinez de la Ossa, F. Marutzky, T.J. Mehrling, P. Niknejadi, J. Osterhoff, P. Pourmoussavi, M. Quast, J.-H. Röckemann, L. Schaper, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, S. Schröder, J.-P. Schwinkendorf, B. Sheeran, G.E. Tauscher, J. Thesinga, V. Wacker, S. Weichert, S. Wesch, S. Wunderlich, J. Zemella
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • B. Foster, T.J. Mehrling
    University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
  • A. Knetsch
    University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • C.A.J. Palmer, M.J.V. Streeter
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: Helmholtz ARD program and the VH-VI-503
FLASHForward is a beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration facility, currently under construction at DESY (Hamburg, Germany), aiming at the stable generation of electron beams of several GeV with small energy spread and emittance. High-quality 1 GeV-class electron beams from the free-electron laser FLASH will act as the wake driver. The setup will allow studies of external injection as well as density-downramp injection. With a triangular-shaped driver beam electron energies of up to 5 GeV from a few centimeters of plasma can be anticipated. Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to assess the feasibility of each technique and to predict properties of the accelerated electron bunches. In this contribution the current status of FLASHForward, along with recent experimental developments and upcoming scientific plans, will be reviewed.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUPIK006  
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