Speaker
Rob Shalloo
(Imperial College London)
Description
The extraction of a laser driven electron beam from the plasma accelerating structure plays an important role in determining the final beam quality. If properly matched, the extraction mechanism can mitigate beam degradation and minimize emittance growth. Controlling this process poses a challenge for multi-stage acceleration schemes aiming to generate TeV level beams for particle collider applications and for the coupling of laser wakefield accelerated beams into insertion devices such as FELs. Here we present results from experiments at the Astra-Gemini facility investigating how the variation in plasma scale length at the exit of a GeV class wakefield accelerator affects the quality of the accelerated electrons.
Primary authors
Rob Shalloo
(Imperial College London)
Mr
Michael Backhouse
(Imperial College London)
Elias Gerstmayr
(Imperial College London)
Jan-Niclas Gruse
(Imperial College London)
Stuart Mangles
(Imperial College London)
Savio Rozario
(Imperial College London)
Dr
Matthew Streeter
(Imperial College London)
Jonathan Wood
(Imperial College London)
Dr
Nelson Lopes
(Instituto Superior Técnico)
Kristjan Poder
(DESY)
Thomas Audet
(The Queen's University of Belfast)
Gianluca Sarri
(Queen's University Belfast)
Dr
Nicolas Bourgeois
(Central Laser Facility (CLF))
Rajeev Pattathil
(Central Laser Facility,)
Zulfikar Najmudin
(Imperial College London)
