Progress on STELLA experiment

Author

Kimura, W.D. ; Campbell, L.P. ; Gottschalk, S.C. ; Quimby, D.C. ; Robinson, K.E. ; Steinhauer, L.C. ; Babzien, M. ; Ben-Zvi, I. ; Gallardo, J.C. ; Kusche, K.P. ; Pogorelsky, I.V. ; Skaritka, J. ; van Steenbergen, A. ; Yakimenko, V. ; Cline, D.B. ; He, P.

Author_Institution

STI Optronics Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3722

Abstract

Progress is reported on the Staged Electron Laser Acceleration (STELLA) experiment, which has been assembled on the BNL Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The primary goal of STELLA is to demonstrate staging of the laser acceleration process by using the BNL inverse free electron laser (IFEL) as a prebuncher, which generates ~1-μm long microbunches, and accelerating these microbunches using an inverse Cerenkov acceleration (ICA) stage. Experimental runs are underway to recommission the IFEL and ICA systems separately, and reestablish the microbunching process. Staging will then be examined by running both the IFEL and ICA systems together

Keywords

collective accelerators; electron accelerators; free electron lasers; particle beam bunching; BNL inverse free electron laser; STELLA experiment; Staged Electron Laser Acceleration; inverse Cerenkov acceleration; laser acceleration process; microbunches; Free electron lasers; Frequency conversion; Gas lasers; Independent component analysis; Large Hadron Collider; Mirrors; Optical surface waves; Test facilities; Testing; Undulators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.792424

Filename

792424