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SUPAF05	Polarized Proton Beams From Laser-Induced Plasmas	proton, polarization, target, plasma	46
	M. Büscher, J. Böker, R. Engels, I. Engin, R. Gebel, A. Hützen, A. Lehrach FZJ, Jülich, Germany A.M. Pukhov, J. Thomas HHUD, Dusseldorf, Germany T. P. Rakitzis, D. Sofikitis University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
	Laser-driven particle acceleration has undergone impressive progress in recent years. Nevertheless, one unexplored issue is how the particle spins are influenced by the huge magnetic fields inherently present in the plasmas. In the framework of the JuSPARC (Jülich Short-Pulse Particle and Radiation Center) facility and of the ATHENA consortium, the laser-driven generation of polarized particle beams in combination with the development of advanced target technologies is being pursued. In order to predict the degree of beam polarization from a laser-driven plasma accelerator, particle-in-cell simulations including spin effects have been carried out for the first time. For this purpose, the Thomas-BMT equation, describing the spin precession in electromagnetic fields, has been implemented into the VLPL (Virtual Laser Plasma Lab) code. A crucial result of our simulations is that a target containing pre-polarized hydrogen nuclei is needed for producing highly polarized relativistic proton beams. For the experimental realization, a polarized HCl gas-jet target is under construction the Forschungszentrum Jülich where the degree of hydrogen polarization is measured with a Lamb-shift polarimeter. The final experiments, aiming at the first observation of a polarized particle beam from laser-generated plasmas, will be carried out at the 10 PW laser system SULF at SIOM/Shanghai.
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MOPLG01	Challenges in Simulating Beam Dynamics of Dielectric Laser Acceleration	electron, focusing, experiment, acceleration	120
	U. Niedermayer, O. Boine-Frankenheim, T. Egenolf, E. Skär TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany A. Adelmann, S. Bettoni, M. Calvi, M.M. Dehler, E. Ferrari, F. Frei, D. Hauenstein, B. Hermann, N. Hiller, R. Ischebeck, C. Lombosi, E. Prat, S. Reiche, L. Rivkin PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland R.W. Aßmann, U. Dorda, M. Fakhari, I. Hartl, W. Kuropka, F. Lemery, B. Marchetti, F. Mayet, H. Xuan, J. Zhu DESY, Hamburg, Germany D.S. Black, P. N. Broaddus, R.L. Byer, A.C. Ceballos, H. Deng, S. Fan, J.S. Harris, T. Hirano, Z. Huang, T.W. Hughes, Y. Jiang, T. Langenstein, K.J. Leedle, Y. Miao, A. Pigott, N. Sapra, O. Solgaard, L. Su, S. Tan, J. Vuckovic, K. Yang, Z. Zhao Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA H. Cankaya, A. Fallahi, F.X. Kärtner CFEL, Hamburg, Germany D.B. Cesar, P. Musumeci, B. Naranjo, J.B. Rosenzweig, X. Shen UCLA, Los Angeles, USA B.M. Cowan Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA R.J. England SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA E. Ferrari, L. Rivkin EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland T. Feurer Universität Bern, Institute of Applied Physics, Bern, Switzerland P. Hommelhoff, A. Li, N. Schönenberger, R. Shiloh, A.D. Tafel, P. Yousefi University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany Y.-C. Huang NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan J. Illmer, A.K. Mittelbach Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, University Erlangen-Nuernberg LFTE, Erlangen, Germany F.X. Kärtner Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and Center for Free Electron Science (CFEL), Hamburg, Germany W. Kuropka, F. Mayet University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany Y.J. Lee, M. Qi Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA E.I. Simakov LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: ACHIP is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant No. GBMF4744). U.N. acknowledges German BMBF Grant No. FKZ:05K16RDB. B.C. acknowledges NERSC, Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Dielectric Laser Acceleration (DLA) achieves the high- est gradients among structure-based electron accelerators. The use of dielectrics increases the breakdown field limit, and thus the achievable gradient, by a factor of at least 10 in comparison to metals. Experimental demonstrations of DLA in 2013 led to the Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP), funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In ACHIP, our main goal is to build an acceler- ator on a silicon chip, which can accelerate electrons from below 100keV to above 1MeV with a gradient of at least 100MeV/m. For stable acceleration on the chip, magnet- only focusing techniques are insufficient to compensate the strong acceleration defocusing. Thus spatial harmonic and Alternating Phase Focusing (APF) laser-based focusing tech- niques have been developed. We have also developed the simplified symplectic tracking code DLAtrack6D, which makes use of the periodicity and applies only one kick per DLA cell, which is calculated by the Fourier coefficient of the synchronous spatial harmonic. Due to coupling, the Fourier coefficients of neighboring cells are not entirely independent and a field flatness optimization (similarly as in multi-cell cavities) needs to be performed. The simu- lation of the entire accelerator on a chip by a Particle In Cell (PIC) code is possible, but impractical for optimization purposes. Finally, we have also outlined the treatment of wake field effects in attosecond bunches in the grating within DLAtrack6D, where the wake function is computed by an external solver.
	Slides MOPLG01 [3.947 MB]
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MOPAG02	Efficient Modeling of Laser Wakefield Acceleration Through the PIC Code Smilei in CILEX Project	plasma, simulation, electron, electromagnetic-fields	160
	F. Massimo, A. Beck, A. Specka, I. Zemzemi LLR, Palaiseau, France J. Derouillat Maison de la Simulation, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France M. Grech, F. Pérez LULI, Palaiseau, France
	The design of plasma acceleration facilities requires considerable simulation effort for each part of the machine, from the plasma injector and/or accelerator stage(s), to the beam transport stage, from which the accelerated beams will be brought to the users or possibly to another plasma stage. The urgent issues and challenges in simulation of multi-stage acceleration with the Apollon laser of CILEX facility will be addressed. To simulate the beam injection in the second plasma stage, additional physical models have been introduced and tested in the open source Particle in Cell collaborative code Smilei. The efficient initialisation of arbitrary relativistic particle beam distributions through a Python interface allowing code coupling and the self consistent initialisation of their electromagnetic fields will be presented. The comparison between a full PIC simulation and a simulation with a recently developed envelope model, which allows to drastically reduce the computational time, will be also shown for a test case of laser wakefield acceleration of an externally injected electron beam.
	Slides MOPAG02 [20.462 MB]
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TUPAF14	Analytical Calculations for Thomson Backscattering Based Light Sources	electron, radiation, scattering, HOM	215
	P.I. Volz, A. Meseck HZB, Berlin, Germany
	There is a rising interest in Thomson-backscattering based light sources, as scattering intense laser radiation on MeV electrons produces high energy photons that would require GeV or even TeV electron beams when using conventional undulators or dipoles. Particularly, medium energy high brightness beams delivered by LINACs or Energy Recovery LINACs, such as BERLinPro being built at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, seem suitable for these sources. In order to study the merit of Thomson-backscattering-based light sources, we are developing an analytical code to simulate the characteristics of the Thomson scattered radiation. The code calculates the distribution of scattered radiation depending on the incident angle and polarization of the laser radiation. Also the impact of the incident laser profile and the full 6D bunch profile, including microbunching, are incorporated. The Status of the code and first results will be presented.
	Slides TUPAF14 [3.289 MB]
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WEPAF01	A Compact Permanent Magnet Spectrometer for CILEX	electron, dipole, permanent-magnet, simulation	320
	M. Khojoyan, A. Cauchois, J. Prudent, A. Specka LLR, Palaiseau, France
	Laser Wakefield acceleration experiments make exten- sive use of small permanent magnets or magnet assemblies for analyzing and focusing electron beams produced in plasma accelerators. Besides being compact, these magnets have to have a large angular acceptance for the divergent laser and electron beams which imposes constraint of the gap size. We will present the optimized design and charac- terization of a 100 mm long, 2.1 Tesla permanent magnet dipole. Furthermore, we will present the performance of such a magnet as a spectrometer in the CILEX/APOLLON 10PW laser facility in France.
	Slides WEPAF01 [6.898 MB]
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WEPLG05	Review of Spectral Maxwell Solvers for Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell: Algorithms and Advantages	plasma, simulation, electron, distributed	345
	R. Lehé, J.-L. Vay LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell codes have been used to simulate both radio-frequency accelerators and plasma-based accelerators. In this context, the Particle-In-Cell algorithm often uses the finite-difference method in order to solve the Maxwell equations. However, while this method is simple to implement and scales well to multiple processors, it is liable to a number of numerical artifacts that can be particularly serious for simulations of accelerators. An alternative to the finite-difference method is the use of spectral solvers, which are typically less prone to numerical artifacts. In this talk, I will review recent progress in the use of spectral solvers for simulations of plasma-based accelerators. This includes techniques to scale those solvers to large number of processors, extensions to cylindrical geometry, and adaptations to specific problems such as boosted-frame simulations.
	Slides WEPLG05 [2.861 MB]
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Other Keywords

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SUPAF05

Polarized Proton Beams From Laser-Induced Plasmas

proton, polarization, target, plasma

46

M. Büscher, J. Böker, R. Engels, I. Engin, R. Gebel, A. Hützen, A. Lehrach
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
A.M. Pukhov, J. Thomas
HHUD, Dusseldorf, Germany
T. P. Rakitzis, D. Sofikitis
University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Laser-driven particle acceleration has undergone impressive progress in recent years. Nevertheless, one unexplored issue is how the particle spins are influenced by the huge magnetic fields inherently present in the plasmas. In the framework of the JuSPARC (Jülich Short-Pulse Particle and Radiation Center) facility and of the ATHENA consortium, the laser-driven generation of polarized particle beams in combination with the development of advanced target technologies is being pursued. In order to predict the degree of beam polarization from a laser-driven plasma accelerator, particle-in-cell simulations including spin effects have been carried out for the first time. For this purpose, the Thomas-BMT equation, describing the spin precession in electromagnetic fields, has been implemented into the VLPL (Virtual Laser Plasma Lab) code. A crucial result of our simulations is that a target containing pre-polarized hydrogen nuclei is needed for producing highly polarized relativistic proton beams. For the experimental realization, a polarized HCl gas-jet target is under construction the Forschungszentrum Jülich where the degree of hydrogen polarization is measured with a Lamb-shift polarimeter. The final experiments, aiming at the first observation of a polarized particle beam from laser-generated plasmas, will be carried out at the 10 PW laser system SULF at SIOM/Shanghai.

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MOPLG01

Challenges in Simulating Beam Dynamics of Dielectric Laser Acceleration

electron, focusing, experiment, acceleration

120

U. Niedermayer, O. Boine-Frankenheim, T. Egenolf, E. Skär
TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
A. Adelmann, S. Bettoni, M. Calvi, M.M. Dehler, E. Ferrari, F. Frei, D. Hauenstein, B. Hermann, N. Hiller, R. Ischebeck, C. Lombosi, E. Prat, S. Reiche, L. Rivkin
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
R.W. Aßmann, U. Dorda, M. Fakhari, I. Hartl, W. Kuropka, F. Lemery, B. Marchetti, F. Mayet, H. Xuan, J. Zhu
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
D.S. Black, P. N. Broaddus, R.L. Byer, A.C. Ceballos, H. Deng, S. Fan, J.S. Harris, T. Hirano, Z. Huang, T.W. Hughes, Y. Jiang, T. Langenstein, K.J. Leedle, Y. Miao, A. Pigott, N. Sapra, O. Solgaard, L. Su, S. Tan, J. Vuckovic, K. Yang, Z. Zhao
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
H. Cankaya, A. Fallahi, F.X. Kärtner
CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
D.B. Cesar, P. Musumeci, B. Naranjo, J.B. Rosenzweig, X. Shen
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
B.M. Cowan
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
R.J. England
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
E. Ferrari, L. Rivkin
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
T. Feurer
Universität Bern, Institute of Applied Physics, Bern, Switzerland
P. Hommelhoff, A. Li, N. Schönenberger, R. Shiloh, A.D. Tafel, P. Yousefi
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Y.-C. Huang
NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan
J. Illmer, A.K. Mittelbach
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, University Erlangen-Nuernberg LFTE, Erlangen, Germany
F.X. Kärtner
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and Center for Free Electron Science (CFEL), Hamburg, Germany
W. Kuropka, F. Mayet
University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
Y.J. Lee, M. Qi
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
E.I. Simakov
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: ACHIP is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant No. GBMF4744). U.N. acknowledges German BMBF Grant No. FKZ:05K16RDB. B.C. acknowledges NERSC, Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Dielectric Laser Acceleration (DLA) achieves the high- est gradients among structure-based electron accelerators. The use of dielectrics increases the breakdown field limit, and thus the achievable gradient, by a factor of at least 10 in comparison to metals. Experimental demonstrations of DLA in 2013 led to the Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP), funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In ACHIP, our main goal is to build an acceler- ator on a silicon chip, which can accelerate electrons from below 100keV to above 1MeV with a gradient of at least 100MeV/m. For stable acceleration on the chip, magnet- only focusing techniques are insufficient to compensate the strong acceleration defocusing. Thus spatial harmonic and Alternating Phase Focusing (APF) laser-based focusing tech- niques have been developed. We have also developed the simplified symplectic tracking code DLAtrack6D, which makes use of the periodicity and applies only one kick per DLA cell, which is calculated by the Fourier coefficient of the synchronous spatial harmonic. Due to coupling, the Fourier coefficients of neighboring cells are not entirely independent and a field flatness optimization (similarly as in multi-cell cavities) needs to be performed. The simu- lation of the entire accelerator on a chip by a Particle In Cell (PIC) code is possible, but impractical for optimization purposes. Finally, we have also outlined the treatment of wake field effects in attosecond bunches in the grating within DLAtrack6D, where the wake function is computed by an external solver.

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MOPAG02

Efficient Modeling of Laser Wakefield Acceleration Through the PIC Code Smilei in CILEX Project

plasma, simulation, electron, electromagnetic-fields

160

F. Massimo, A. Beck, A. Specka, I. Zemzemi
LLR, Palaiseau, France
J. Derouillat
Maison de la Simulation, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M. Grech, F. Pérez
LULI, Palaiseau, France

The design of plasma acceleration facilities requires considerable simulation effort for each part of the machine, from the plasma injector and/or accelerator stage(s), to the beam transport stage, from which the accelerated beams will be brought to the users or possibly to another plasma stage. The urgent issues and challenges in simulation of multi-stage acceleration with the Apollon laser of CILEX facility will be addressed. To simulate the beam injection in the second plasma stage, additional physical models have been introduced and tested in the open source Particle in Cell collaborative code Smilei. The efficient initialisation of arbitrary relativistic particle beam distributions through a Python interface allowing code coupling and the self consistent initialisation of their electromagnetic fields will be presented. The comparison between a full PIC simulation and a simulation with a recently developed envelope model, which allows to drastically reduce the computational time, will be also shown for a test case of laser wakefield acceleration of an externally injected electron beam.

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TUPAF14

Analytical Calculations for Thomson Backscattering Based Light Sources

electron, radiation, scattering, HOM

215

P.I. Volz, A. Meseck
HZB, Berlin, Germany

There is a rising interest in Thomson-backscattering based light sources, as scattering intense laser radiation on MeV electrons produces high energy photons that would require GeV or even TeV electron beams when using conventional undulators or dipoles. Particularly, medium energy high brightness beams delivered by LINACs or Energy Recovery LINACs, such as BERLinPro being built at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, seem suitable for these sources. In order to study the merit of Thomson-backscattering-based light sources, we are developing an analytical code to simulate the characteristics of the Thomson scattered radiation. The code calculates the distribution of scattered radiation depending on the incident angle and polarization of the laser radiation. Also the impact of the incident laser profile and the full 6D bunch profile, including microbunching, are incorporated. The Status of the code and first results will be presented.

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WEPAF01

A Compact Permanent Magnet Spectrometer for CILEX

electron, dipole, permanent-magnet, simulation

320

M. Khojoyan, A. Cauchois, J. Prudent, A. Specka
LLR, Palaiseau, France

Laser Wakefield acceleration experiments make exten- sive use of small permanent magnets or magnet assemblies for analyzing and focusing electron beams produced in plasma accelerators. Besides being compact, these magnets have to have a large angular acceptance for the divergent laser and electron beams which imposes constraint of the gap size. We will present the optimized design and charac- terization of a 100 mm long, 2.1 Tesla permanent magnet dipole. Furthermore, we will present the performance of such a magnet as a spectrometer in the CILEX/APOLLON 10PW laser facility in France.

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WEPLG05

Review of Spectral Maxwell Solvers for Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell: Algorithms and Advantages

plasma, simulation, electron, distributed

345

R. Lehé, J.-L. Vay
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell codes have been used to simulate both radio-frequency accelerators and plasma-based accelerators. In this context, the Particle-In-Cell algorithm often uses the finite-difference method in order to solve the Maxwell equations. However, while this method is simple to implement and scales well to multiple processors, it is liable to a number of numerical artifacts that can be particularly serious for simulations of accelerators. An alternative to the finite-difference method is the use of spectral solvers, which are typically less prone to numerical artifacts. In this talk, I will review recent progress in the use of spectral solvers for simulations of plasma-based accelerators. This includes techniques to scale those solvers to large number of processors, extensions to cylindrical geometry, and adaptations to specific problems such as boosted-frame simulations.

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