Speaker
Manuel Kirchen
(University of Hamburg)
Description
The demonstration of a free-electron laser presents one of today’s main challenges in the field of plasma acceleration. Driving the FEL process with laser-plasma accelerated electron beams requires low transverse emittances and high spectral charge densities. Here we present our recent progress on the generation of high-quality electron beams at the LUX beamline. Few-percent relative energy spread beams at several hundred MeV with tens of pC charge are produced from controlled injection in tailored plasma targets. The impact of laser and target parameter variations on the injection and acceleration dynamics are discussed and validated by Particle-In-Cell simulations with FBPIC.
Primary authors
Manuel Kirchen
(University of Hamburg)
Soeren Jalas
(University of Hamburg)
Philipp Messner
(University of Hamburg)
Paul Winkler
(University of Hamburg)
Vincent Leroux
(University of Hamburg)
Matthias Schnepp
(University of Hamburg)
Mr
Lars Hübner
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)
Mrs
Cora Braun
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg)
Andreas Maier
(University of Hamburg)
