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PIP-II injector test’s low energy beam transport: Commissioning and selected measurements

AIP Conference Proceedings AIP Publishing 1869:1 (2017) 050003

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A Shemyakin, M Alvarez, R Andrews, J-P Carneiro, A Chen, R D’Arcy, B Hanna, L Prost, V Scarpine, C Wiesner
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Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses

PHYSICAL REVIEW ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 20:7 (2017) ARTN 044802

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J Cowley, C Thornton, C Arran, RJ Shalloo, L Corner, G Cheung, CD Gregory, SPD Mangles, NH Matlis, DR Symes, R Walczak, SM Hooker
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Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses

PHYSICAL REVIEW ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 20:7 (2017) ARTN 044802

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J Cowley, C Thornton, C Arran, RJ Shalloo, L Corner, G Cheung, CD Gregory, SPD Mangles, NH Matlis, DR Symes, R Walczak, SM Hooker
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Investigation into the limits of perturbation theory at low Q(2) using HERA deep inelastic scattering data

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 96:1 (2017) ARTN 014001

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I Abt, AM Cooper-Sarkar, B Foster, V Myronenko, K Wichmann, M Wing
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Flashforward - Future-oriented wakefield-accelerator research and development at FLASH

IPAC 2017 - Proceedings of the 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (2017) 1692-1695

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R D'Arcy, A Aschikhin, C Behrens, S Bohlen, J Dale, L Di Lucchio, M Felber, B Foster, L Goldberg, JN Gruse, Z Hu, G Indorg, A Knetsch, O Kononenko, V Libov, S Karstensen, K Ludwig, A Martinez de la Ossa, F Marutzky, T Mehrling, P Niknejadi, CAJ Palmer, P Pourmoussavi, M Quast, P Winkler, JH Röckemann, L Schaper, J Schaffran, H Schlarb, B Schmidt, S Schröder, JP Schwinkendorf, B Sheeran, MJV Streeter, G Tauscher, J Thesinga, V Wacker, S Weichert, S Wesch, S Wunderlich, J Zemella, J Osterhoff

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FLASHForward is a beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration facility, currently under construction at DESY (Hamburg, Germany), aiming at the stable generation of electron beams of several GeV with small energy spread and emittance. High-quality 1 GeV-class electron beams from the free-electron laser FLASH will act as the wake driver. The setup will allow studies of external injection as well as density-downramp injection. With a triangular-shaped driver beam electron energies of up to 5 GeV from a few centimeters of plasma can be anticipated. Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to assess the feasibility of each technique and to predict properties of the accelerated electron bunches. In this contribution the current status of FLASHForward, along with recent experimental developments and upcoming scientific plans, will be reviewed.