Speaker
Dr
Vladyslav Libov
(DESY)
Description
FLASHForward is a beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration facility, currently under construction at DESY (Hamburg, Germany), aiming at the stable generation of electron beams of several GeV with small energy spread and emittance.
High-quality 1 GeV-class electron beams from the free-electron laser FLASH will act as the wake driver.
The setup will allow studies on external injection as well as on various internal injection techniques, such as density-downramp or ionisation injection.
With a triangular-shaped drive beam electron energies of up to 5 GeV can be anticipated.
Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to assess the feasibility of each technique and to predict properties of the accelerated electron bunches.
In this contribution the physics case and the current status of FLASHForward will be reviewed.
Concepts of the main components - the extraction beamline from the FLASH linac, the target area, the plasma cell and the post-plasma beam transport and diagnostics - will be described.
Primary author
Dr
Vladyslav Libov
(DESY)
Co-authors
Dr
Alberto Martinez de la Ossa
(DESY)
Mr
Alexander Aschikhin
(DESY)
Mr
Alexander Knetsch
(University of Hamburg)
Prof.
Bernhard Hidding
(Uni Gamburg/DESY & UCLA)
Dr
Bernhard Schmidt
(DESY)
Prof.
Brian Foster
(DESY)
Dr
Charlotte Palmer
(DESY)
Dr
Christopher Behrens
(DESY)
Prof.
Eckhard Elsen
(DESY)
Mr
Fabian Pannek
(University of Hamburg)
Ms
Gabriele Tauscher
(DESY)
Dr
Holger Schlarb
(DESY)
Mr
Jan-Hendrik Erbe
(DESY)
Mr
Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
Dr
Jens Osterhoff
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Mr
Joern Schaffran
(DESY)
Dr
Johann Zemella
(DESY)
Dr
John Dale
(DESY)
Mr
Kai Ludwig
(DESY)
Mr
Lars Goldberg
(DESY)
Dr
Lucas Schaper
(University Hamburg / DESY)
Dr
Matthew Streeter
(DESY)
Mr
Matthias Felber
(DESY)
Olena Kononenko
(Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
Mr
Simon Bohlen
(DESY)
Mr
Stefan Weichert
(DESY)
Mr
Steffen Wunderlich
(DESY)
Dr
Timon Mehrling
(DESY)
Mr
Tobias Kleinwaechter
(DESY)
Mrs
Violetta Wacker
(DESY)
Dr
Zhanghu Hu
(DESY)
