TY - GEN
T1 - Fulfilling the Mission of Brookhaven ATF as a DOE's Flagship user Facility in Accelerator Stewardship
AU - Pogorelsky, I. V.
AU - Bazien, M.
AU - Fedurin, M.
AU - Polyanskiy, M. N.
AU - Palmer, M. A.
AU - Vafaei-Najafabadi, N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Over the last three decades, Brookhaven Laboratory's Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) pioneered the concept of a proposal-based user facility for lasers and electron beam-driven advanced accelerator research (AAR). This has made ATF, operating as an Office of Science National User Facility and the flagship DOE facility for the Accelerator Stewardship Program, an internationally recognized destination for researchers who benefit from access to unique experimental capabilities not otherwise available to individual institutions and businesses. The ATF is pursuing an ambitious upgrade plan for its lasers and electron beam infrastructure to enable experiments at the forefront of the AAR. In this contribution, we present our path towards achieving the novel multi-terawatt, sub-picosecond regime with a long-wave infrared 9.2-μm laser. Future enhancements to the electron beam and near-IR laser capabilities at the ATF are also presented. The combination of linac-and laser-driven e-beams will empower a unique state-of-the-art science program. This includes integrated multi-beam research in laser wakefield accelerators, such as the two-color ionization injection, with the promise of an all-optical scheme for generating collider-quality electron beams.
AB - Over the last three decades, Brookhaven Laboratory's Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) pioneered the concept of a proposal-based user facility for lasers and electron beam-driven advanced accelerator research (AAR). This has made ATF, operating as an Office of Science National User Facility and the flagship DOE facility for the Accelerator Stewardship Program, an internationally recognized destination for researchers who benefit from access to unique experimental capabilities not otherwise available to individual institutions and businesses. The ATF is pursuing an ambitious upgrade plan for its lasers and electron beam infrastructure to enable experiments at the forefront of the AAR. In this contribution, we present our path towards achieving the novel multi-terawatt, sub-picosecond regime with a long-wave infrared 9.2-μm laser. Future enhancements to the electron beam and near-IR laser capabilities at the ATF are also presented. The combination of linac-and laser-driven e-beams will empower a unique state-of-the-art science program. This includes integrated multi-beam research in laser wakefield accelerators, such as the two-color ionization injection, with the promise of an all-optical scheme for generating collider-quality electron beams.
KW - CO2 laser
KW - electron beam
KW - long-wave infrared
KW - particle acceleration
KW - user facility
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85216883165
U2 - 10.1109/AAC55212.2022.10822924
DO - 10.1109/AAC55212.2022.10822924
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85216883165
T3 - 2022 IEEE Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AAC 2022 - Proceedings
BT - 2022 IEEE Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AAC 2022 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 20th IEEE Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AAC 2022
Y2 - 6 November 2022 through 11 November 2022
ER -