Stable Operation of a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Plasma Accelerator

Galletti, Mario; Alesini, D.; Anania, M. P.; Arjmand, S.; Behtouei, Mostafa; Bellaveglia, M.; Biagioni, A.; Buonomo, B.; Cardelli, Fabio; Carpanese, M.; Chiadroni, E.; Cianchi, A.; Costa, G.; Dotto, Alessio Del; Giorno, M. Del; Dipace, Felice; Doria, A.; Filippi, F.; Franzini, Giovanni; Giannessi, L.; Giribono, Anna; Iovine, P.; Lollo, V.; Mostacci, A.; Nguyen, F.; Opromolla, Michele; Pellegrino, L.; Petralia, A.; Petrillo, V.; Piersanti, L.; Pirro, G. Di; Pompili, R.; Romeo, S.; Rossi, A. R.; Selce, A.; Shpakov, V.; Stella, A.; Vaccarezza, C.; Villa, F.; Zigler, A.; Ferrario, M.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.129.234801

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“…The WarpX code is, as was its predecessor Warp, part of the BLAST suite of codes. 4 BLAST, originally standing for "Berkeley Lab Accelerator Simulation Toolkit", was renamed in 2021 to "Beam, Plasma & Accelerator Simulation Toolkit". This reflects the grown community that spans maintainers, contributors and collaborators from many international institutions, and applies the BLAST codes to a growing number of applications.…”

Section: Modernizing Blast For Exascalementioning

confidence: 99%

From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale

Huebl¹,

Lehe²,

Zoni³

et al. 2023

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Developing complex, reliable advanced accelerators requires a coordinated, extensible, and comprehensive approach in modeling, from source to the end of beam lifetime. We present highlights in Exascale Computing to scale accelerator modeling software to the requirements set for contemporary science drivers. In particular, we present the first laser-plasma modeling on an exaflop supercomputer using the US DOE Exascale Computing Project WarpX. Leveraging developments for Exascale, the new DOE SCIDAC-5 Consortium for Advanced Modeling of Particle Accelerators (CAMPA) will advance numerical algorithms and accelerate community modeling codes in a cohesive manner: from beam source, over energy boost, transport, injection, storage, to application or interaction. Such start-to-end modeling will enable the exploration of hybrid accelerators, with conventional and advanced elements, as the next step for advanced accelerator modeling. Following open community standards, we seed an open ecosystem of codes that can be readily combined with each other and machine learning frameworks. These will cover ultrafast to ultraprecise modeling for future hybrid accelerator design, even enabling virtual test stands and twins of accelerators that can be used in operations.

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Section: Modernizing Blast For Exascalementioning

confidence: 99%

From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale

Huebl¹,

Lehe²,

Zoni³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Plasma acceleration is capable of achieving high acceleration gradients (in the order of 1 GeV/m), reducing the dimension of the accelerator. Different configurations of drivers (using laser pulses 27,28 or electron bunches 29,30 ) can accelerate electron beams capable of driving a FEL exponential growth. Following our expertise in SPARC LAB, we plan to use a particle driven PWFA in a plasma capillary.…”

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ARIA—A VUV Beamline for EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB

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EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB is a new Free Electron Laser (FEL) facility that is currently under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of the INFN. The electron beam driving the FEL will be delivered by an X-band normal conducting LINAC followed by a plasma wakefield acceleration stage. It will be characterized by a small footprint and will deliver ultra-bright photon pulses for experiments in the water window to the user community. In addition to the soft-X-rays beamline already planned in the project, we propose the installation of a second photon beamline with seeded FEL pulses in the range between 50 and 180 nm. Here, we will present the FEL generation scheme, the layout of the dedicated beamline and the potential applications of the FEL radiation source in this low energy range.

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“…However, the further development of plasmabased sources requires improvement in beam quality, specifically energy spread and emittance. SPARC LAB [7] focuses on creating high-quality electron beams using plasma-based acceleration experiments, resulting in the first Free-Electron Laser lasing from a beam driven plasmaaccelerated electron beam [8,9,10]. The SPARC LAB photoinjector consists of an electron gun and three accelerating sections and solenoids.…”

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Beam dynamics optimization for high gradient beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration at SPARC-LAB

Carillo,

Alesini,

Anania

et al. 2024

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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The SPARC_LAB test facility at the LNF (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome) holds a high brightness photo-injector used to investigate advanced beam manipulation techniques. High brightness electron bunch trains (so-called comb beams) can be generated striking on the photo-cathode of a Radio Frequency (RF) photo-injector with a ultra-short UV laser pulse train in tandem with the velocity bunching technique. Beam dynamics studies have been performed with the aim of optimizing the dynamics of the double beam (driver and witness) used to perform particle driven plasma wake field acceleration (PWFA). In this scenario different scans on beam parameters were carried on adopting the ASTRA simulation code, in order to optimize the witness beam quality and improve the plasma booster stage performances. A benchmark of the simulations has been then performed, reproducing the experimental data obtained from the optimization of machine performances, and a good agreement was found.

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Stable Operation of a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Plasma Accelerator

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale

From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale

ARIA—A VUV Beamline for EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB

Beam dynamics optimization for high gradient beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration at SPARC-LAB

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