7 papers
Initial Performance of the E320 Tracker
Oleksandr Borysov, Sébastien Corde, Gal Evenzur +12
Our recent study discussed the prospects for measuring single positrons produced in electron-laser collisions via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler deep-tunneling process in the SLAC Exp…
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…
First results from the E302 efficiency$\unicode{x2013}$instability experiment at the FACET-II facility
O. G. Finnerud, E. Adli, R. Ariniello +18
The beam-breakup (BBU) instability in plasma accelerators is seeded by a transverse offset between the driver and a trailing bunch. The BBU instability induces oscillations in the…
Prospects for the production and detection of Breit-Wheeler tunneling positrons in Experiment 320 at the FACET-II accelerator
Oleksandr Borysov, Alon Levi, Sebastian Meuren +7
The SLAC Experiment 320 collides 10 TW-class laser pulses with the high-quality, 10 GeV electron beam from the FACET-II RF LINAC. This setup is expected to produce a sizable number…
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…
A High-Flux Electron Detector System to Measure Non-linear Compton Scattering at LUXE
Antonios Athanassiadis, Robert Ariniello, Louis Helary +14
Recently, advancements in high-intensity laser technology have enabled the exploration of non-perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in strong-field regimes. Notable aspects in…