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physics.acc-ph2026

Results of R&D Programmes and LP&CW EXFEL Cryomodule Tests in the Period from 2005 to 2023

J. Sekutowicz, D. Proch, J. Eschke +14

In 2005 and 2006, we began to consider the feasibility of long-pulse (LP) and continuous-wave (CW) operation for the E-XFEL. The operation modes considered were assumed to be compl…

physics.acc-ph2026

Generalization of the Froissart-Stora formula to piecewise-linear spin-orbit resonance crossings

Joseph P. Devlin, Georg H. Hoffstaetter, Desmond P. Barber

Spin-polarized beams are important for some nuclear and high-energy physics experiments, such as those planned for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). However, maintaining pola…

physics.acc-ph2025

Slice Emittance Preservation and Focus Control in a Passive Plasma Lens

J. Björklund Svensson, J. Beinortaitė, L. Boulton +15

Strong, symmetrically focusing plasma lenses are promising for accommodating the small beams associated with plasma-based accelerators and collider final foci. However, while focus…

physics.acc-ph2025

Self-Adaptive Stabilization and Quality Boost for Electron Beams from All-Optical Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

D. Campbell, T. Heinemann, A. Dickson +14

Shot-to-shot fluctuations in electron beams from laser wakefield accelerators present a significant challenge for applications. Here, we show that instead of using such fluctuating…

physics.acc-ph2025

Ion-motion simulations of a plasma-wakefield experiment at FLASHForward

D. Kalvik, P. Drobniak, F. Peña +13

In plasma-based acceleration, an ultra-relativistic particle bunch$\unicode{x2014}$or an intense laser beam$\unicode{x2014}$is used to expel electrons from its propagation path, fo…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

Experimental demonstration of a tomographic 5D phase-space reconstruction

S. Jaster-Merz, R. W. Assmann, J. Beinortaitė +17

Detailed knowledge of particle-beam properties is of great importance to understand and push the performance of existing and next-generation particle accelerators. We recently prop…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

Homogenized harmonic balance finite element method for nonlinear eddy current simulations of fast corrector magnets

Jan-Magnus Christmann, Laura Anna Maria D'Angelo, Herbert De Gersem +5

This paper develops a homogenized harmonic balance finite element method (HomHBFEM) to predict the dynamic behavior of magnets with fast excitation cycles, including eddy current a…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

femto-PIXAR: a neural network method for reconstruction of femtosecond X-ray free electron laser pulse energy

Gesa Goetzke, Rajan Plumley, Gregor Hartmann +6

X-ray Free Electron Lasers (X\nobreakdash-FELs) operate in a wide range of lasing configurations for a broad variety of scientific applications at ultrafast time-scales such as str…

physics.acc-ph2025

High-level environmental sustainability guidelines for large accelerator facilities

Hannah Wakeling, Philip Burrows, Jim Clarke +5

The proposed construction of new particle accelerator-based facilities in the coming decades -- and upgrades to existing facilities -- provides the unique opportunity to embed inno…

physics.acc-ph2024

Space Charge and Future Light Sources

S. A. Antipov, V. Gubaidulin, I. Agapov +2

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that space charge effects in ultrarelativistic electron storage rings are irrelevant due to the steep inverse dependence of their strength o…

physics.acc-ph2024

The ECFA Early-Career Researchers Panel: Report for the year 2023

Julia Allen, Bruno Alves, Jan-Hendrik Arling +67

The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) Early-Career Researcher (ECR) panel, which represents the interests of the ECR community to ECFA, presents in this document it…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Interpretation of the horizontal beam response near the third integer resonance

E. C. Cortés García, P. Niedermayer, R. Singh +5

The beam response to an external periodic excitation delivers relevant information about the optics, tune distribution and stability of a circulating beam in a storage ring. In thi…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Design of a resonant slow extraction from low emittance electron booster rings using transverse resonance island buckets

E. C. Cortés García, I. Agapov, W. Hillert

In this contribution we present the design of a resonant slow extraction based on the radio frequency knock-out (RF-KO) scheme, where we make use of the transverse resonance island…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Frequency splitting in undulator radiation from solid-state crystalline undulator

A. Shchagin, G. Kube, A. Potylitsyn +1

The set of frequencies and angular properties of radiation emitted from a solid-state crystalline undulator based on the channeling effect are considered. High-frequency and low-fr…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 23 cited

Emittance preservation in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

C. A. Lindstrøm, J. Beinortaitė, J. Björklund Svensson +15

Radio-frequency particle accelerators are engines of discovery, powering high-energy physics and photon science, but are also large and expensive due to their limited accelerating…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Mitigation of the Microbunching Instability Through Transverse Landau Damping

A. D. Brynes, G. Perosa, C. -Y. Tsai +14

The microbunching instability has been a long-standing issue for high-brightness free-electron lasers (FELs), and is a significant show-stopper to achieving full longitudinal coher…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 5 cited

Resonant emittance mixing of flat beams in plasma accelerators

Severin Diederichs, Carlo Benedetti, Angel Ferran Pousa +4

Linear colliders rely on high-quality flat beams to achieve the desired event rate, while avoiding potentially deleterious beamstrahlung effects. Here, we show that flat beams in p…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 4 cited

Longitudinal phase space diagnostics with a nonmovable corrugated passive wakefield streaker

Philipp Dijkstal, Weilun Qin, Sergey Tomin

Time-resolved diagnostics at Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facilities, in particular electron beam longitudinal phase space (LPS) and FEL power profile measurements, provide informatio…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental Demonstration of Attosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy with an X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver, Sandra Beauvarlet +47

Pump-probe experiments with sub-femtosecond resolution are the key to understanding electronic dynamics in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate the generation and control of sub-fe…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 31 cited

Cheetah: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Learning and Particle Accelerator Physics with High-Speed, Differentiable Simulations

Jan Kaiser, Chenran Xu, Annika Eichler +1

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful solution to the modern challenges in accelerator physics. However, the limited availability of beam time, the computational cost of simul…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 4 cited

Bayesian Optimization Algorithms for Accelerator Physics

Ryan Roussel, Auralee L. Edelen, Tobias Boltz +23

Accelerator physics relies on numerical algorithms to solve optimization problems in online accelerator control and tasks such as experimental design and model calibration in simul…

physics.acc-ph2023

Optimization of the Resolution of a Streaking Setup

F. Mayet, K. Floettmann

In low regimes the inevitable induced energy spread in combination with longitudinal dispersion during the drift through a transverse deflecting structure (TDS) can alter the p…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 11 cited

Energy Depletion and Re-Acceleration of Driver Electrons in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator

F. Peña, C. A. Lindstrøm, J. Beinortaitė +13

For plasma-wakefield accelerators to fulfil their potential for cost effectiveness, it is essential that their energy-transfer efficiency be maximized. A key aspect of this efficie…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 1 cited

Coupled bunch stability with variable filling patterns in PETRA IV

Sergey Antipov, Chao Li

The PETRA IV upgrade project is aiming at building a 6 GeV diffraction-limited light source. The storage ring`s off-axis accumulation injection scheme will allow generating a wide…