Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2934-1
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1995.505479
