Opportunities with plasma-accelerated electrons at LESA

5 Sept 2025, 10:45
20m
48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D (SLAC)

48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

SLAC

90
Talk Facility: LESA LESA Facility

Speaker

Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

Description

The S30XL/LESA beamline enables a unique opportunity to deliver plasma-accelerated beams to HEP users. The high-quality LCLS-II bunch can drive high-amplitude wakes in plasma, allowing for multi-GeV acceleration of electrons in a few centimeters. High energy acceleration of continuous spectrum electron beams has been demonstrated at both SLAC's FFTB and FACET facilities. Further tests are planned for FACET-II, which will demonstrate the viability of this approach for the S30XL/LESA beamline. We aim to deliver single electrons with energy greater than 20 GeV with precision timing to LESA users.

Author

Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

Co-authors

Carsten Hast (SLAC) Mark Hogan (SLAC) Thamine Dalichaouch

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