Speaker
Michael Litos
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Description
The thin, underdense, passive plasma lens comprises a sub-millimeter scale, laser-ionized plasma in the outflow of a supersonic gas jet. It promises compact, strong, tunable, axisymmetric focusing of intense electron beams and is ideally suited for matching beams into and out of plasma wakefield accelerator stages. It can also be used for reducing divergence of high-brightness plasma-injected beams as they exit the plasma source. Results from experiments at SLAC’s FACET-II facility will be presented demonstrating strong focusing of a 10 GeV electron beam to a small waist in vacuum downstream of the plasma lens.
Primary authors
Michael Litos
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Shutang Meng
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Co-authors
Alexander Knetsch
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Brendan O'Shea
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Chandrashekhar Joshi
(UCLA)
Chaojie Zhang
(UCLA)
Christopher Doss
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Claire Hansel
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Claudio Emma
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Doug Storey
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Elena Ros
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Erik Adli
(University of Oslo, Norway)
Jiawei Cao
(UiO)
Ken Marsh
(UCLA)
Mark Hogan
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Nathan Majernik
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Robert Ariniello
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Prof.
Sebastien Corde
(Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée)
Spencer Gessner
(SLAC)
Thamine Dalichaouch
(University of California Los Angeles)
Valentina Lee
(University of Colorado, Boulder)
