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RIS citation export for TUPOA28: Feasibility of OTR Imaging for Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerator Electron-Beam Diagnostics

TY - CONF
AU - Lumpkin, A.H.
AU - Downer, M.
AU - Rule, D.W.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Power, Maria
ED - Shiltsev, Vladimir
ED - White, Marion
TI - Feasibility of OTR Imaging for Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerator Electron-Beam Diagnostics
J2 - Proc. of NAPAC2016, Chicago, IL, USA, October 9-14, 2016
C1 - Chicago, IL, USA
T2 - North American Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 3
LA - english
AB - Recent measurements of betatron x-ray emission from quasi-monoenergetic electrons accelerating to 500 MeV within a laser plasma accelerator (LPA) enabled estimates of normalized transverse emittance well below 1 mm-mrad and divergences of order 1/gamma [1]. Such unprecedented LPA beam parameters can, in principle, be addressed by utilizing the properties of linearly polarized optical transition radiation (OTR) that provide additional beam parameter sensitivity. We propose a set of complementary measurements of beam size and divergence with near-field and far-field OTR imaging, respectively, on LPA electron beams ranging in energy from 100 MeV [2] to 2 GeV [3]. The feasibility is supported by analytical modeling for beam size sensitivity and divergence sensitivity. In the latter case, the calculations indicate that the parallel polarization component of the far-field OTR pattern is sensitive to divergences from 0.1 to 0.4 mrad (σ) at 2 GeV, and it is similarly sensitive to divergences from 1 to 5 mrad (σ) at 100 MeV. We anticipate the signal levels from charges of 100 pC will require a 16-bit cooled CCD camera. Other practical challenges in the LPA will also be discussed.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 345
EP - 348
KW - ion
KW - electron
KW - polarization
KW - laser
KW - plasma
DA - 2017/01
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-180-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOA28
UR - https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tupoa28.pdf
ER -