Photonics (Dec 2024)
Characterization of kHz Repetition Rate Laser-Driven Electron Beams by an Inhomogeneous Field Dipole Magnet Spectrometer
- Illia Zymak,
- Marco Favetta,
- Gabriele Maria Grittani,
- Carlo Maria Lazzarini,
- Gianfranco Tassielli,
- Annika Grenfell,
- Leonardo Goncalves,
- Sebastian Lorenz,
- Vanda Sluková,
- Filip Vitha,
- Roberto Versaci,
- Edwin Chacon-Golcher,
- Michal Nevrkla,
- Jiří Šišma,
- Roman Antipenkov,
- Václav Šobr,
- Wojciech Szuba,
- Theresa Staufer,
- Florian Grüner,
- Loredana Lapadula,
- Ezio Ranieri,
- Michele Piombino,
- Nasr A. M. Hafz,
- Christos Kamperidis,
- Daniel Papp,
- Sudipta Mondal,
- Pavel Bakule,
- Sergei V. Bulanov
Affiliations
- Illia Zymak
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Marco Favetta
- U.O.S.D. Fisica Sanitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy
- Gabriele Maria Grittani
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Carlo Maria Lazzarini
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Gianfranco Tassielli
- Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università LUM “Giuseppe Degennaro”, S.S. 100 Km. 18, Casamassima, 70010 Bari, Italy
- Annika Grenfell
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Leonardo Goncalves
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Sebastian Lorenz
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Vanda Sluková
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Filip Vitha
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Roberto Versaci
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Edwin Chacon-Golcher
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Michal Nevrkla
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Jiří Šišma
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Roman Antipenkov
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Václav Šobr
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Wojciech Szuba
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Theresa Staufer
- Physics Department, and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- Florian Grüner
- Physics Department, and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- Loredana Lapadula
- U.O.S.D. Radioterapia, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy
- Ezio Ranieri
- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Biotecnologie ed Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via E. Orabona, 70125 Bari, Italy
- Michele Piombino
- U.O.S.D. Radioterapia, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy
- Nasr A. M. Hafz
- The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, ALPS Facility, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Wolfgang Sandner Utca 3, H-6728 Szeged, Hungary
- Christos Kamperidis
- The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, ALPS Facility, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Wolfgang Sandner Utca 3, H-6728 Szeged, Hungary
- Daniel Papp
- The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, ALPS Facility, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Wolfgang Sandner Utca 3, H-6728 Szeged, Hungary
- Sudipta Mondal
- The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, ALPS Facility, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Wolfgang Sandner Utca 3, H-6728 Szeged, Hungary
- Pavel Bakule
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- Sergei V. Bulanov
- ELI Beamlines, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11121208
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 12
p. 1208
Abstract
We demonstrate a method to characterize the beam energy, transverse profile, charge, and dose of a pulsed electron beam generated by a 1 kHz TW laser-plasma accelerator. The method is based on imaging with a scintillating screen in an inhomogeneous, orthogonal magnetic field produced by a wide-gap magnetic dipole. Numerical simulations were developed to reconstruct the electron beam parameters accurately. The method has been experimentally verified and calibrated using a medical LINAC. The energy measurement accuracy in the 6–20 MeV range is proven to be better than 10%. The radiation dose has been calibrated by a water-equivalent phantom, RW3, showing a linear response of the method within 2% in the 0.05–0.5 mGy/pulse range.
Keywords
- laser wakefield acceleration
- high repetition rate high power laser
- electron beam metrology
- phosphorous screen detector
- Monte Carlo particle–matter interaction model
- relativistic particle tracking model
