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| MOPOPT063 | Reconstruction of Beam Parameters from Betatron Radiation Using Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Machine Learning | 407 |
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Funding: US Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics, Contract No. DE-SC0009914 STFC Liver-pool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data Intensive Science, grant agreement ST/P006752/1 Betatron radiation that arises during plasma wakefield acceleration can be measured by a UCLA-built Compton spectrometer, which records the energy and angular position of incoming photons. Because information about the properties of the beam is encoded in the betatron radiation, measurements of the radiation can be used to reconstruct beam parameters. One method of extracting information about beam parameters from measurements of radiation is maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), a statistical technique which is used to determine unknown parameters from a distribution of observed data. In addition, machine learning methods, which are increasingly being implemented for different fields of beam diagnostics, can also be applied. We assess the ability of both MLE and other machine learning methods to accurately extract beam parameters from measurements. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT063 | |
| About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 15 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 24 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 26 June 2022 | |
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| MOPOPT066 | Gas Sheet Diagnostics Using Particle in Cell Code | 410 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the STFC Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data Intensive Science (LIV. DAT) under grant agreement ST/P006752/1 and DE-SC0019717. When intense particle beam propagates in dense plasma or gas, ionization can yield valuable information on the drive beam properties. Impact ionization and tunnel ionization are the two ionization regimes that must be accounted for varying beam properties. Due to these ionization mechanisms, new plasma electrons are generated causing different instabilities, dependent on the dominant ionization process considered. In order to accomplish the ambitious experimental goals of sophisticated beam diagnostics using ionization imaging, careful studies on the different ionization regimes, and the cross-over periods, required. Here we will discuss the impact ionization using fully parallel PIC code OSIRIS. We focus on understanding the gas sheet ionization diagnostics for characterizing high intensity charged particle beams. We study the interaction of neutral gas with an electron beam and varying density. We will also investigate the principle of detecting photon emission, rather than direct primary ion imaging, from the ionization induced in the interaction between the gas jet and charged particle beams. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT066 | |
| About • | Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 19 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 21 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 26 June 2022 | |
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| TUPOPT034 | Modelling of X-Ray Volume Excitation of the XLO Gain Medium Using Flash | 1081 |
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Funding: This work was performed with the support of the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 and DESC0009914. Plasma dynamics and crater formation of laser excited volumes in solids is a complex process due to thermalization, shockwave formation, varying absorption mechanisms, and a wide range of relevant physics timescales. The properties and interaction of such laser-matter systems can be modeled using an equation of state and opacity based multi-temperature treatment of plasma using a radiation hydrodynamics code. Here, we use FLASH, an adaptive mesh radiation-hydrodynamics code, to simulate the plasma expansion following after the initial energy deposition and thermalization of the column, to benchmark the results of experiments undertaken at UCLA on optical laser ablation. These computational results help develop a quantitative understanding of the material excitation process and enable the optimization of the gain medium delivery system for the x-ray laser oscillator project *. * Halavanau, Aliaksei, et al. "Population Inversion X-Ray Laser Oscillator." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 27, 2020, pp. 15511-15516. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOPT034 | |
| About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 16 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 18 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 24 June 2022 | |
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| TUPOPT035 | Introduction of Westwood Linear Accelerator Test Facility in University of California Los Angeles | 1085 |
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Funding: U.S. DOE: DE-SC0009914 U.S. DOD: DARPA GRIT Contract 20204571 U.S. DOE: DE-SC0020409 - Cryo RF An electron linear accelerator test facility located on UCLA’s southwest campus in Westwood, SAMURAI, is presently being constructed. A RF-based accelerator consists of a compact, 3 MeV S-band hybrid gun capable of velocity bunching to bunch lengths in the 100s fs range with 100s pC of charge. This beam is accelerated by an 1.5 m S-band linac with a peak output energy of 30 MeV which can be directed to either a secondary beamline or remain on the main beamline for final acceleration by a SLAC 3 m S-band linac to an energy of 80 MeV. Further acceleration by advanced boosters such as a cryo-cooled C-band structure or numerous optical or wakefield methods is under active investigation. In combination with a 3 TW Ti:Sapphire laser, initial proof of principle experiments will be conducted on topics including the ultra-compact x-ray free-electron laser, advanced dielectric wakefield acceleration, bi-harmonic nonlinear inverse Compton scattering, and various radiation detectors. Furthermore, development of a tertiary beamline based on an ultra low emittance, cryo-cooled gun will eventually enable two-beam experiments, expanding the facility’s unique experimental capabilities. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOPT035 | |
| About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 09 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 20 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 24 June 2022 | |
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| TUPOPT047 | Progress Report on Population Inversion X-Ray Laser Oscillator at LCLS | 1107 |
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| We report the progress in the design and construction of a population inversion x-ray laser oscillator (XLO) using LCLS as an x-ray laser pump, being developed by a SLAC, CFEL, University of Hamburg (Germany), University of Wisconsin, Josef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and UCLA collaboration. In this proceeding, we will present the latest XLO design and numerical simulations substantiated by our first experimental results. In our next experimental step XLO will be tested on the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) end-station at LCLS as a two pass Regenerative Amplifier operating at the Copper Kα1 photon energy of 8048 eV. When built, XLO will generate fully coherent transform limited pulses with about 50 meV FWHM bandwidth. We expect the XLO will pave the way for new user experiments, e.g. in inelastic x-ray scattering, parametric down conversion, quantum science, x-ray interferometry, and external hard x-ray XFEL seeding. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOPT047 | |
| About • | Received ※ 12 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 24 June 2022 | |
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| WEPOST041 | Physical Aspects of Collinear Laser Injection at SLAC FACET-II E-310: Trojan Horse Experiment | 1787 |
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Funding: This work was performed with support of the US Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics, un-der Contract No. DE-SC0009914, and the STFC grant ST/P006752/1. The Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II) is a test accelerator infrastructure at SLAC dedicated to the research and development of advanced accelerator technologies. We performed simulations of electron beam driven wakefields, with collinear lasers used for ionization injection of electrons. We numerically generated a witness beam using the OSIRIS code in an up ramp plasma as well as uniform plasma regimes. We report on challenges and details of the E-310 experiment which aims to demonstrate this plasma photocathode injection at FACET-II. We examine the phenomena beam hosing and drive beam depletion. Details of the witness beam generated are discussed. Computation of betatron-radiation X-ray spatial distribution and critical energy are done for FACET-II low emittance beams. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST041 | |
| About • | Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 21 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022 | |
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| WEPOST042 | Radiation Diagnostics for AWA and FACET-II Flat Beams in Plasma | 1791 |
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Funding: This work was performed with support of the US Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE-SC0009914, DE-SC0017648 - AWA and STFC grant ST/P006752/1 , In energy beam facilities like FACET and AWA, beams with highly asymmetric emittance are of interest because they are the preferred type of beam for linear colliders. That is ultimately the motivation: building a plasma based LC. In this case, the blowout region is no longer symmetric around an axis is not equal in the two transverse planes. Focusing is required to keep the particles within the tight apertures and characterizing these accelerators shows the benefits of employing ultra low beam emittances. Beams with high charge and high emittance ratios in excess of 100:1 are available at AWA. If the focusing will not be equal, then we will have different radiation signatures for the flat and symmetric beams in plasma. We use OSIRIS particle-in-cell codes to compare various scenarios including a weak blowout and a strong blowout. Further, we determine the radiation generated in the system by importing particle trajectories into a Liénard Weichert code. We discuss future steps towards full diagnostics of flat beams using radiation. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST042 | |
| About • | Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 20 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 July 2022 | |
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| WEPOST045 | Simulating Enhanced Focusing Effects of Ion Motion in Adiabatic Plasmas | 1798 |
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Funding: This work was performed with support of the US Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE-SC0009914, and the STFC Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data Intensive Science (LIV. DAT) under grant agreement ST/P006752/1. The FACET-II facility offers the unique opportunity to study low emittance, GeV beams and their interactions with high density plasmas in plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) scenarios. One of the experiments relevant to PWFA research at FACET-II is the ion collapse experiment E-314, which aims to study how ion motion in a PWFA can produce dual-focused equilibrium. As nonlinear focusing effects due to nonuniform ion distributions have not been extensively studied; we explore the difficulties of inducing ion motion in an adiabatic plasma and examines the effect an ion column has on beam focusing. A case study is performed on a system containing a plasma lens and adiabatic PWFA. Ions in the lens section are assumed to be static, while simulations of an adiabatic matching section are modified to include the effects of ion column collapse and their nonlinear focusing fields. Using the parameters of the FACET-II beam, we find that a collapsed ion column amplifies the focusing power of a plasma without compromising emittance preservation. This led to a spot size orders of magnitude less than that of a simply matched beam. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST045 | |
| About • | Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 15 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 23 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 25 June 2022 | |
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| WEPOST046 | Beam Matching in an Elliptical Plasma Blowout Driven by Highly Asymmetric Flat Beams | 1802 |
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Funding: This work was performed with the support of the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-SC0017648 and DESC0009914. Particle beams with highly asymmetric emittance ratios, or flat beams, are employed at accelerator facilities such as the AWA and foreseen at FACET-II. Flat beams have been used to drive wakefields in dielectric structures and are an ideal candidate for high-gradient wakefields in plasmas. The high aspect ratio produces a blowout region that is elliptical in cross section and this asymmetry in the ion column structure creates asymmetric focusing in the two transverse planes. The ellipticity of the plasma blowout decreases as the normalized peak current increases, and gradually approaches an axisymmetric column. An appropriate matching condition for the beam envelope inside the elliptical blowout is introduced. Simulations are performed to investigate the ellipticity of the resultant wakefield based on the initial drive beam parameters, and are compared to analytical calculations. The parameter space for two cases at the AWA and FACET facilities, with requirements for plasma profile and achievable fields, is presented. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST046 | |
| About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 29 June 2022 | |
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| WEPOST048 | Excitation of Very High Gradient Plasma Wakefields From Nanometer Scale Beams | 1806 |
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Funding: This work was performed with the support of the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DESC0009914. The plasma based terawatt attosecond project at SLAC, termed PAX, offers near mega-Ampere beams that could be used to demonstrate plasma wakefield acceleration at very high gradients (TV/m). The beam has a large aspect ratio which allows it to be used at high densities since the longitudinal beam size is lower than the plasma skin depth. This beam can be focused using a permanent magnitude quadrupole (PMQ) triplet to further reduce its transverse size. Since the beam is extremely short compared to the plasma skin depth, it behaves like a delta-function perturbation to the plasma. This reduces the expected focusing effect of the ion column and simulations show that only the tail of the beam is notably focused and decelerated. This scenario is investigated with attendant experimental considerations discussed. The creation of the witness beam by the deceleration of the tail of the beam is also discussed. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST048 | |
| About • | Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 29 June 2022 | |
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| THPOTK053 | Foiled Again: Solid-State Sample Delivery for High Repetition Rate XFELs | 2899 |
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Funding: Department of Energy DE-SC0009914 and DE-AC02-76SF00515 XFELs today are capable of delivering high intensity pulse trains of x-rays with up-to MHz to sub-GHz frequency. These x-rays, when focused, can ablate a sample in a single shot, requiring the sample material to be replaced in time for the next shot. For some applications, especially serial crystallography, the sample may be renewed as a dilute solution in a high speed jet. Here, we describe the development and characterization of a system to deliver solid state sample material to an XFEL nanofocus. The first application of this system will be an x-ray laser oscillator operating at the copper Kα line with a ~30 ns cavity. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOTK053 | |
| About • | Received ※ 06 June 2022 — Revised ※ 15 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 02 July 2022 | |
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