TY - CONF
AU - Athanassiadis, Antonios
AU - Jacobs, Ruth Magdalena
AU - List, Jenny
AU - Moortgat-Pick, Gudrid
AU - Ranken, Evan
AU - Schmitt, Stefan
TI - A Cherenkov detector for high-rate electron detection in the LUXE experiment
PB - Universität Hamburg
M1 - PUBDB-2023-07306
PY - 2023
AB - The Laser Und XFEL Experiment (short LUXE) based at DESY, Hamburg is aplanned experiment to study nonlinearity effects in the strong-field QED regimewith high precision.In order to create electric fields stronger than the so-called Schwinger limit, it isplanned to collide a high-intensity laser pulse with either high-energy electronsup to 16.5 GeV or high-energy photons.As a result, non-linear Compton scattering or Breit-Wheeler interactions willtake place, leading to a laser-intensity-dependent shift of the Compton edge andthe appearance of higher-order harmonics in the energy spectrum. One of thechallenges of measuring the Compton energy spectrum in laser-electron-beamcollisions is the expected flux of outgoing Compton-scattered electrons andphotons, ranging from 10<sup>3</sup> to 10<sup>9</sup> particles per collision.This contribution will present the simulation-based design of an electronflux-resistant Cherenkov detector prototype, first testbeam results as well asoptical simulation studies. Further optimisation of the various components aswell as reconstruction algorithms will be discussed.
T2 - 9. Annual Matter and Technologies Meeting
CY - 9 Oct 2023 - 10 Oct 2023, KIT Karlsruhe (Germany)
Y2 - 9 Oct 2023 - 10 Oct 2023
M2 - KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)24
UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/599299
ER -