TY  - CONF
AU  - Burghart, Philipp
AU  - Boulton, Lewis Anthony
AU  - Wood, Jonathan Christopher
AU  - Beinortaite, Judita
AU  - Björklund Svensson, Jonas Halfdan
AU  - D'Arcy, Richard
AU  - Ferran Pousa, Angel
AU  - Foster, Brian
AU  - Gonzalez Caminal, Pau
AU  - Huck, Maryam
AU  - Jones, Harry
AU  - Kanekar, Advait
AU  - Lindstroem, Carl Andreas
AU  - Loisch, Gregor
AU  - Long, Tianyun
AU  - Maier, Andreas
AU  - Mewes, Steven Mathis
AU  - Osterhoff, Jens
AU  - Pena Asmus, Felipe Lars
AU  - Schröder, Sarah
AU  - Thévenet, Maxence
AU  - Wesch, Stephan
AU  - Wing, Matthew
AU  - Moortgat-Pick, Gudrid
TI  - A virtual spectral diagnostic for plasma accelerated bunches at FLASHForward
PB  - DESY
M1  - PUBDB-2025-05713
PY  - 2025
AB  - Plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA) promises to reduce the size of future machines significantly by providing multi-GeV/m acceleration gradients, orders of magnitude higher than conventional RF accelerators. However, PWFA is a process with many non-linear dependencies, making it difficult to understand the influence of input parameters. Moreover, measurements of e.g. energy spectra are destructive, preventing the output beam from being used for applications whilst only allowing for the diagnosis of one bunch in a bunch train simultaneously. Neural networks trained on non-destructive measurements can be used to predict the properties of accelerated bunches, which would provide more insight into sources of variability and potential shot-to-shot, nondestructive measurements for whole bunch trains. Using experimental data collected at FLASHForward - a beam-driven plasma acceleration experiment at DESY, Hamburg - a neural network-based virtual diagnostic predicting the spectral properties of plasma accelerated bunches is being investigated. In this contribution, we present first results from this project.
T2  - DPG Spring Meeting 2025
CY  - 31 Mar 2025 - 4 Apr 2025, Göttingen (Germany)
Y2  - 31 Mar 2025 - 4 Apr 2025
M2  - Göttingen, Germany
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)24
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/642917
ER  -