21–27 Sept 2025
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Experimental capabilities at the ARCTURUS laser laboratory - versatile development and diagnostics platform for advanced plasma-based accelerator experiments

24 Sept 2025, 19:00
1h 30m
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy

Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy

La Biodola Bay - 57037 Portoferraio Isola d’Elba (Li) - Italy
Poster (participant) PS1: Plasma-based accelerators and ancillary components Poster Session

Speakers

Thomas Heinemann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Andrew Sutherland (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) Mirela Cerchez

Description

The experimental area at the ARCTURUS laser laboratory at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) provides a versatile research and development platform, designed for supporting flexible configurations of advanced laser-driven and hybrid laser- and electron beam-driven plasma accelerator concepts, as well as offering a test-bed for novel diagnostic approaches.
The experimental setup has already enabled a series of laser-driven plasma accelerator experiments and has seen continuous additions and refinements in complementary diagnostics abilities.
We provide an overview of the currently implemented diagnostics and their prospective development paths, including online main laser monitoring before and after the laser-plasma interaction, probe laser plasma interferometry, various plasma wave shadowgraphy methods, spatial and spectrally resolved plasma-light metrology, electron and dose characterisation methods as well as secondary radiation monitors.
Future experiments at ARCTURUS laboratory are furthermore envisioned to be developed in a community-driven and collaborative approach.

Primary authors

Thomas Heinemann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Andrew Sutherland (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) Mirela Cerchez Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

Co-authors

Constantin Aniculaesei (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Koen Macken (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Chuan Zheng (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Marc Osenberg (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Edgar Anton Hartmann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Natascha Thomas (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Onur Bilen Paula Sedlatschek (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Kamill Naczynski (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Antonio Tarzikhan (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Imke Wellesen (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Nils Hanold (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Jesko Wrobel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Matthias Neumann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Salvador Neumann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Katharina Benner (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) Tobias Kutz (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)) Victor Emde (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU))

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