TY - JOUR AU - Sjobak, K. N. AU - Adli, E. AU - Corsini, R. AU - Farabolini, W. AU - Boyle, Gregory James AU - Lindstroem, Carl Andreas AU - Meisel, Martin AU - Osterhoff, Jens AU - Röckemann, Jan-Hendrik AU - Schaper, Lucas AU - Dyson, A. E. TI - Strong focusing gradient in a linear active plasma lens JO - Physical review accelerators and beams VL - 24 IS - 12 SN - 1098-4402 CY - College Park, MD PB - American Physical Society M1 - PUBDB-2021-03811 M1 - arXiv:2012.10680 SP - 121306 PY - 2021 N1 - arXiv title: Multi-kT/m Focusing Gradient in a Linear Active Plasma Lens8 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Applied AB - Active plasma lenses are compact devices developed as a promising beam-focusing alternative for charged particle beams, capable of short focal lengths for high-energy beams. We have previously shown that linear magnetic fields with gradients of around 0.3 kT/m can be achieved in argon-filled plasma lenses that preserve beam emittance [C.A. Lindstrøm et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 194801 (2018)]. Here we show that with argon in a 500 μm diameter capillary, the fields are still linear with a focusing gradient of 3.6 kT/m, which is an order of magnitude higher than the gradients of quadrupole magnets. The current pulses that generate the magnetic field are provided by compact Marx banks, and are highly repeatable. The demonstrated operation with simultaneously high-gradient, linear fields and good repeatability establish active plasma lenses as an ideal device for pulsed particle beam applications requiring very high focusing gradients that are uniform throughout the lens aperture. KW - charged particle: beam (INSPIRE) KW - beam: width (INSPIRE) KW - magnetic field: gradient (INSPIRE) KW - beam emittance (INSPIRE) KW - beam focusing (INSPIRE) KW - beam: pulsed (INSPIRE) KW - argon (INSPIRE) KW - accelerator: plasma (INSPIRE) KW - current: time dependence (INSPIRE) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000739627800001 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.24.121306 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/465228 ER -