Publications (20)
Extremely Dense Gamma-Ray Pulses in Electron Beam-Multifoil Collisions
Archana Sampath, Xavier Davoine, Sébastien Corde +26
Sources of high-energy photons have important applications in almost all areas of research. However, the photon flux and intensity of existing sources is strongly limited for photo…
FACET2-S2E: Start-to-end simulations of the FACET-II beamline
Nathan Majernik, Frederick Cropp, Claudio Emma +1
FACET2-S2E is a Python package for start-to-end simulations of the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests-II (FACET-II), a US Department of Energy National User Facil…
Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider
Spencer Gessner, Jens Osterhoff, Carl A. Lindstrøm +198
This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and…
Multi-GeV Electron Combs from a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Chaojie Zhang, Douglas Storey, Alexander Knetsch +16
Plasma accelerators now produce GeV-class electron beams with brightness and stability sufficient to drive free-electron lasers. Beyond this, they possess a unique yet largely unex…
Strong-field focusing of high-energy particles in beam-multifoil collisions
Aimé Matheron, Doug Storey, Max F. Gilljohann +25
Extreme beams of charged particles and photons, reaching ultrahigh densities or producing intense gamma-ray bursts, are central to accelerator physics, laboratory astrophysics, and…
Wavelength scaling and multi-color operation of a plasma driven attosecond X-ray source via harmonic generation
Rafi Hessami, Jenny Morgan, River Robles +3
The generation of high power coherent soft X-ray pulses of sub-100 as duration and 10 nm wavelength using beams from a GeV energy plasma wakefield accelerator has been recently inv…
Precision alignment and tolerance of a plasma wakefield accelerator in a laser-ionized plasma source
Valentina Lee, Robert Ariniello, Douglas Storey +9
We present a novel method for aligning a laser ionized plasma source to a pair of ultra-relativistic electron beams that comprise a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA). We achieve…
Transverse pulse shaping and optimization of a tapered hard X-ray free electron laser
Claudio Emma, Claudio Pellegrini, Juhao Wu
Multidimensional optimization schemes for TW hard X-Ray free electron lasers are applied to the cases of transversely uniform and parabolic electron beam distributions and compared…
XCC: An X-ray FEL-based Collider Higgs Factory
Tim Barklow, Su Dong, Claudio Emma +8
This report describes the design of a Higgs factory in which 62.8 GeV electron beams collide with 1 keV X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) beams to produce colliding beams of…
Advanced Control Methods for Particle Accelerators (ACM4PA) 2019 Workshop Report
Alexander Scheinker, Claudio Emma, Auralee L. Edelen +1
Los Alamos is currently developing novel particle accelerator controls and diagnostics algorithms to enable higher quality beams with lower beam losses than is currently possible.…
Tapering studies for Terawatt level X-ray FELs with a superconducting undulator
Claudio Emma, Juhao Wu, Paul Emma +2
We study the tapering optimization scheme for a short period, less than two cm, superconducting undulator, and show that it can generate 4 keV X-ray pulses with peak power in exces…
Experimental generation of extreme electron beams for advanced accelerator applications
Claudio Emma, Nathan Majernik, Kelly Swanson +13
In this Letter we report on the experimental generation of high energy (10 GeV), ultra-short (fs-duration), ultra-high current (0.1 MA), petawatt peak power electron beams in a par…
Multipoint-BAX: A New Approach for Efficiently Tuning Particle Accelerator Emittance via Virtual Objectives
Sara A. Miskovich, Willie Neiswanger, William Colocho +7
Although beam emittance is critical for the performance of high-brightness accelerators, optimization is often time limited as emittance calculations, commonly done via quadrupole…
High Efficiency, Multi-Terawatt X-ray free electron lasers
Claudio Emma, Kun Fang, Juhao Wu +1
We study high efficiency, multi-terawatt peak power, few angstrom wavelength, X-ray Free Electron Lasers (X-ray FELs). To obtain these characteristics we consider an optimized undu…
Very high brightness and power LCLS-II hard X-ray pulses
Aliaksei Halavanau, Franz-Josef Decker, Claudio Emma +2
We show the feasibility of generating X-ray pulses in the 4 to 8 keV fundamental photon energy range with 0.65 TW peak power, 15 fs pulse duration, bandwidth, usin…
C Demonstration Research and Development Plan
Emilio A. Nanni, Martin Breidenbach, Caterina Vernieri +46
C is an opportunity to realize an ee collider for the study of the Higgs boson at GeV, with a well defined upgrade path to 550 GeV while staying on the…
Correlations between X-rays, Visible Light and Drive-Beam Energy Loss Observed in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments at FACET-II
Chaojie Zhang, Doug Storey, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +26
This study documents several correlations observed during the first run of the plasma wakefield acceleration experiment E300 conducted at FACET-II, using a single drive electron bu…
Superradiant and stimulated-superradiant emission of bunched electron beams
Avraham Gover, Reuven Ianconescu, Aharon Friedman +4
We outline the fundamental coherent radiation emission processes from a bunched charged particles beam. In contrast to spontaneous emission of radiation from a random electron beam…
Terawatt attosecond X-ray source driven by a plasma accelerator
Claudio Emma, Xinlu Xu, Andrew Fisher +6
Plasma accelerators can generate ultra high brightness electron beams which open the door to light sources with smaller physical footprint and properties un-achievable with convent…
Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier White Paper: Near Term Applications driven by Advanced Accelerator Concepts
Claudio Emma, Jeroen van Tilborg, Félicie Albert +8
While the long-term vision of the advanced accelerator community is aimed at addressing the challenges of future collider technology, it is critical that the community takes advant…