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@PHDTHESIS{Schwinkendorf:424631,
author = {Schwinkendorf, Jan-Patrick},
othercontributors = {Osterhoff, Jens and Foster, Brian},
title = {{E}lectron-beam diagnostics for a laser-driven plasma
wakefield accelerator in the framework of {FLASHF}orward},
school = {Universität Hamburg},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Hamburg},
publisher = {Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron},
reportid = {PUBDB-2019-03011, DESY-THESIS-2019-015},
series = {DESY-THESIS},
pages = {139},
year = {2019},
note = {no worldwide visibility(Schwinkendorf); Dissertation,
Universität Hamburg, 2018},
abstract = {Plasma wakefields are a promising approach for the
acceleration of electrons with ultrahigh (10 to 100 GV/m)
electric fields. Nowadays, high-intensity laser pulses are
routinely utilized to excite these large-amplitude plasma
waves. Particle beams from conventional radio-frequency
accelerators can also excite such waves and therefore may
work as an energy booster. In addition, this long-existing
technology is quite well understood such that the particle
beams can be operated as probes to gain an insight into the
plasma waves and the acceleration process within them. For
this purpose, among others, a new facility is being set up:
FLASHForward. Owing to the particle beam planned to drive
the plasma wakefield not being powerful enough to ionize the
applied gas and generate a plasma, a high-power laser is
available, which by itself is capable of driving plasma
waves. Thus, a laser-driven plasmawakefield accelerator
could be built and commissioned to support the operation of
FLASHForward as well as for stand-alone experiments. This
thesis reports on the implemented infrastructure, including
the laser and the accelerator with the appertaining
diagnostics, which can be used to prepare FLASHForward
covering target investigations, diagnostics or experiments.
Especially, this thesis is focused on diagnostics for the
electron beam. Since plasma accelerators can produce short
bunches to gain insight into the acceleration process as
well as allow a comparison of the beam quality with respect
to conventional acceleration their detection is of interest.
A basic detection method is the application of scintillating
screens. For the low charges which are typical of plasma
acceleration, a high-sensitivity phosphor screen was
investigated and calibrated. For longitudinal profiling
based on common spectroscopic investigations, a spectral
phase measurement technique is suggested to overcome
ambiguities based on the phase retrieval. The emittance is a
key parameter in accelerator science and a measure of the
beamquality important for particle physics as well as light
sources. Typically, the emittance is measured after the
plasma interaction where the plasma transition to the vacuum
might have affected it.Here, betatron radiation is accessed
to get an insightinto the emittance inside the plasma. Beams
both from self and ionization injection are compared, the
emitted betatron radiation is investigated and the
micron-level emittance deduced as well as related to
numerically analyzed PIC simulations.},
cin = {UNI/EXP / FLA / XFEL-User},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)UNI_EXP-20120731$ / I:(DE-H253)FLA-20120731 /
I:(DE-H253)XFEL-User-20170713},
pnm = {631 - Accelerator R $\&$ D (POF3-631) / PWA - Research
group for plasma-based accelerators (PWA-20150304) /
VH-VI-503 - Plasma wakefield acceleration of highly
relativistic electrons with FLASH $(2015_IFV-VH-VI-503)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-631 / G:(DE-H253)PWA-20150304 /
$G:(DE-HGF)2015_IFV-VH-VI-503$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)FLASHForward-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)29 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2019-03011},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/424631},
}