Progress on plasma lens experiments at the Final Focus Test Beam

Author

Kwok, P. ; Chen, P. ; Cline, D. ; Barletta, W. ; Berridge, S. ; Bugg, W. ; Bula, C. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Craddock, W. ; Hsu, I. ; Iverson, R. ; Katsouleas, T. ; Lai, P. ; Leemans, W. ; Liou, R. ; McDonald, K.T. ; Meyerhofer, D.D. ; Nakajima, K. ; Nakanis

Author_Institution

California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

2135

Abstract

The proposal to perform a series of plasma lens experiments at the Final Focus Test Beam at SLAC has been described earlier. We report on our progress towards validation of concepts involved in the experiments, including the laser ionized plasma production test, development of the supersonic gas jet as the plasma source, and study on focused beam size measurement techniques. Most importantly, the effects of background events due to plasma lenses in future linear collider detectors, such as that in the NLC, are studied in details and are shown to be within detector tolerances

Keywords

collective accelerators; colliding beam accelerators; electron accelerators; linear colliders; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam focusing; plasma focus; plasma jets; plasma production by laser; Final Focus Test Beam; NLC; SLAC; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; background events; detector tolerances; focused beam size measurement; laser ionized plasma production test; linear collider detectors; plasma lens experiments; plasma source; supersonic gas jet; Detectors; Event detection; Laser beams; Lenses; Particle beams; Performance evaluation; Plasma measurements; Plasma sources; Proposals; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.505479

Filename

505479