Slice emittance preservation and focus control in a passive plasma lens

Physical Review Research American Physical Society (APS) 8:3 (2026) 033242

Authors:

J Björklund Svensson, J Beinortaitė, L Boulton, B Foster, JM Garland, P González Caminal, M Huck, H Jones, A Kanekar, G Loisch, J Osterhoff, F Peña, S Schröder, M Thévenet, S Wesch, M Wing, JC Wood, R D’Arcy

Abstract:

Strong, symmetrically focusing plasma lenses are promising for accommodating the small beams associated with plasma-based accelerators and collider final foci. However, while focusing with active and passive plasma lenses has been experimentally demonstrated, compatibility with high-brightness beams relevant for applications has not. In this work, we show experimentally that passive plasma lenses can preserve free-electron-laser-quality slice emittance while focusing two orders of magnitude more strongly than quadrupole magnets, and that the focal parameters can be controlled.

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