Overview of the CLEAR plasma lens experiment

Journal article

Discharge capillary-based active plasma lenses are a promising new technology for strongly focusing charged particle beams, especially when combined with novel high gradient acceleration methods. Still, many questions remain concerning such lenses, including their transverse field uniformity, limitations due to plasma wakefields and whether they can be combined in multi-lens lattices in a way to cancel chromaticity. These questions will be addressed in a new plasma lens experiment at the CLEAR User Facility at CERN. All the subsystems have been constructed, tested and integrated into the CLEAR beam line, and are ready for experiments starting late 2017.

Authors: Lindstrøm, C; Sjobak, K; Adli, E; Röckemann, J; Schaper, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• Volume: 909
• Pages: 379-382
• Publication date: 2018-01-31
• Acceptance date: 2018-01-17
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.01.063
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• Keywords: active plasma lens; Compact Marx Bank; discharge capillary; CLEAR user facility