Laserwire at the Accelerator Test Facility 2 with submicrometer resolution
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 39619979
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.072802
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams
- Article number
- 072802
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 1098-4402
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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9
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- A laserwire is a device to measure the transverse size of high-energy micron-scale relativistic particle beams without disrupting them with a physical object. This paper outlines the design, operation and performance a near diffraction limited laserwire using transmitting optics. The ATF laserwire collided a high-power pulsed laser with a relativistic electron beam. This measured beam size met the technical goals for measuring the transverse beam phase space for a future linear electron collider. This work is a proof of principle to next generation Compton X-ray generation devices which are being developed for fundamental science, imaging and medical applications.
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- Non-English
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