Speaker
Diana Jahn
(Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Description
Laser-driven ion acceleration became a promising field in the past 20 years. The Laser Ion Generation, Handling and Transport (LIGHT) collaboration makes in this field a significant impact. This collaboration was founded to combine laser-driven ion acceleration with conventional accelerator technology. It consists of several university groups (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Technische Universität Dresden, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) and research centers (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Helmholtzzentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Helmholtzinstitut Jena). In the last few years, a 6 m long test beamline was set up at GSI and sub-nanosecond, intense MeV proton bunches were generated through phase focussing. In the next experiments, the beam homogeneity has been improved to enable the time-resolved imaging capability. Moreover, first energy loss pre-experiments are planned based on specially developed ultrafast diamond detectors.
Primary author
Diana Jahn
(Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Co-authors
Abel Blazevic
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Helmholtz-Institut Jena)
Christian Brabetz
(GSI)
Dennis Schumacher
(GSI)
Mr
Florian Kroll
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Florian-Emmanuel Brack
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)
Mr
Johannes Ding
(Technical University Darmstadt)
Prof.
Markus Roth
(Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Prof.
Thomas COWAN
(Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Prof.
Ulrich Schramm
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Vincent Bagnoud
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Helmholtz-Institut Jena)
