Accepted Proposals

CURRENT RESEARCH AT FACET-II

Listed below are approved experiments for FACET-II User Facility. Currently active experiments (invited for beamtime or to otherwise use facility resources) are indicated.
 
Proposal number Proposal Title Principal Investigator Institution Contact Currently Active
E-300 Energy Doubling of Narrow Energy Spread Witness Bunch while Preserving Emittance with a High Pump-to-Witness Energy Transfer Efficiency in a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Chan Joshi and Mark Hogan UCLA, SLAC Chan Joshi Y
E-301 Tailored Plasma Source for Emittance Preservation in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and High-Brightness Plasma-Injected Beams Michael Litos University of Colorado Boulder Michael Litos Y
E-302 Transverse wakefields and instabilities in plasma wakefield accelerators Prof. Erik Adli University of Oslo Prof. Erik Adli  
E-303 Generation and Acceleration of Positrons at FACET II Ken Marsh and Chan Joshi UCLA Ken Marsh  
E-304 Downramp Trapping in PWFA for generating low emittance beams Chaojie Zhang (UCLA), Sebastien Corde (LOA) and Xinlu Xu (SLAC) UCLA/LOA/SLAC Chaojie Zhang Y
E-305 Beam filamentation and bright gamma-ray bursts Sébastien Corde, Ken Marsh, Frederico Fiuza École Polytechnique/LOA, UCLA, SLAC Sébastien Corde Y
E-306 Beam-Driven Ion Channel Laser Michael Litos University of Colorado Boulder Michael Litos  
E-307 Investigating the physics of beam loading using localized beam-induced ionization injection  Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi Stony Brook University Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi  
E-308 Extreme Focusing in Vacuum with a Passive Plasma Lens Michael Litos University of Colorado Boulder Michael Litos Y
E-310 Trojan Horse-II Bernhard Hidding | James B. Rosenzweig Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | UCLA Bernhard Hidding Y
E-311 Plasma Torch Optical Density Downramp Injection Bernhard Hidding | James B. Rosenzweig  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | UCLA Thomas Heinemann Y
E-312 High Brightness Electron Beams from Dragon Tail Injection James B. Rosenzweig, Bernhard Hidding UCLA, Strathclyde James B. Rosenzweig  
E-313 Multibunch dechirper for ultrahigh 6D brightness beams Bernhard Hidding, Fahim A. Habib Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Bernhard Hidding  
E-314 Experimental Investigations of Ion Collapse in the PWFA James B. Rosenzweig, Bernhard Hidding UCLA, Univ. Strathclyde James B. Rosenzweig  
E-315 Plasma Afterglow Attosecond Metrology Bernhard Hidding, Andrew Sutherland Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Andrew Sutherland Y
E-316 Icarus: Transient tunneling ionization of crossing laser and electron beams Bernhard Hidding, Thomas Heinemann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; DESY Bernhard Hidding  
E-317 TeV/m plasma wakefield acceleration James B. Rosenzweig, Agostino Marinelli UCLA, SLAC James B. Rosenzweig  
E-318 Attosecond strong-field physics Agostino Marinelli SLAC Agostino Marinelli  
E-319 Flat-beam plasma wakefield acceleration and focusing Gerard Andonian, James B. Rosenzweig UCLA, RadiaBeam James B. Rosenzweig  
E-320 Probing Strong-field QED at FACET-II Sebastian Meuren Stanford Sebastian Meuren Y
E-321 Dielectric wakefield acceleration at GV/m gradients James B. Rosenzweig, Brendan O’Shea UCLA, SLAC James B. Rosenzweig  
E-322 Gas Sheet Viewscreen G. Andonian, M. Ruelas RadiaBeam Technologies G. Andonian  
E-323 A post-plasma longitudinal bunch diagnostic for FACET-II with fs resolution Jens Osterhoff DESY Jens Osterhoff  
E-324 Optical visualization of beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators M. Downer The University of Texas at Austin M. Downer Y
E-325 Automatic tuning for high gain, low energy spread, and low variance PWFA Alexander Scheinker Los Alamos National Laboratory Alexander Scheinker Y
E-326 Non-Intercepting Diagnostics for High Intensity Beams and Computer Control Brendan O’Shea SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Brendan O’Shea Y
E-327 Virtual diagnostic for phase space prediction and customization at FACET-II Claudio Emma SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Claudio Emma Y
E-328 Coherent off-axis undulator radiation as a bunch length diagnostic for FACET-II Claudio Emma SLAC National Laboratory Claudio Emma  
E-329 A Non-Invasive Current Profile Diagnostic for Electron Bunches Quinn Marksteiner Los Alamos National Laboratory Quinn Marksteiner  
E-330 Laserwire for Sector 20 IP Transverse Beam Diagnostics Glen White SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Glen White  
E-331 Neural network based tuning to exploit machine-wide sensitivities in pursuit of high beam quality Auralee Edelen SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Auralee Edelen Y
E-332 Near-field-CTR-based self-focusing in beam-multifoil collisions: towards soliddensity beams, extremely-dense gamma-ray pulses and laserless SFQED Sébastien Corde and Matteo Tamburini IP Paris and MPIK Sébastien Corde Y
E-333 Positron Acceleration in an Electron Beam-Driven Plasma Filament Wakefield Spencer Gessner SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Spencer Gessner  
E-334a Relativistic doppler shift of coherent transition radiation Agostino Marinelli SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Agostino Marinelli  
E-334b Extreme Nonlinear Coherent Transition Radiation: dielectric response of materials to supercritical fields. David Reis SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory David Reis  
E-335 Compressing FACET-II e-beam to hundreds of kA Yichao Jing Brookhaven National Lab Yichao Jing  
E-336 E305nano (extension of E305 scope)  Feasibility studies of the FACET-II beam interaction with CNT materials Sébastien Corde and Toshiki Tajima IP Paris and UC Irvine Sébastien Corde  Y
E-337 Electron and positron acceleration in self-generated, thin, warm hollow plasma channels Thales Silva and Jorge Vieria Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Thales Silva  
E-338 Attosecond XUV/X-ray source driven by a plasma accelerator Claudio Emma, Mark Hogan, Agostino Marinelli SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Claudio Emma Y
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FACET experiments (complete) from 2011-2016
 
Number Proposal Title Principal Investigator Institution Contact
E-200 Multi-GeV Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments  Chan Joshi, Mark Hogan, Patric Muggli UCLA, SLAC, MPI Mark Hogan
E-201 Wakefield Acceleration in Dielectric Structures ​J. Rosenzweig, G. Tavish, M. Hogan, P. Muggli UCLA-SLAC-USC Gerard Andonian
E-202 Ultrafast processes in Magnetic Materials Hermann Durr SLAC Ioan Tudusa
E-203 Determination of the time profile of 50 fs long bunches by means of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation Ivan Konoplev Oxford University Ivan Konoplev
E-204 Proposal for testing of metallic structures periodic structures at FACET V. Dolgashev SLAC V. Dolgashev
E-205 High Gradient Dielectric Wakefield Measurement at FACET  A. Kanareykin  Euclid Techlabs LLC A. Kanareykin
E-206 Characterizing Terahertz Radiation from the FACET Beam Alan Fisher SLAC Alan Fisher
E-207 High-Gradient THz-scale Two-Channel Coaxial Dielectric Wake Field Accelerator Experiment  S. Shchelkunov Yale  
E-208   ​Direct measurements of the transverse long-range wake-fields of CLIC main linac accelerating structures  Alexej Grudiev  CERN Alexej Grudiev
E-209 Study of the Self-Modulation of Long Lepton Bunches in Dense Plasmas and its Application to Advanced Acceleration Techniques ​J. Vieira, P. Muggli, M. Hogan UTL, MPI, SLAC Jorge Vieira
E-210 Trojan Horse Plasma Wakefield Acceleration J. Rosenzweig, B. Hidding UCLA  
E-211 Experimental verification of the effectiveness of linear collider final-focus feedbacks and alignment algorithms Andrea Latina CERN Andrea Latina
E-212 Radiation from GeV electrons in diamond with intensities approaching the amplified radiation regime U. Uggerhøj DPAAU  
E-213 Temporal Limits of Electron-Phonon Interaction  I-Wei Chen University of Pennsylvania I-Wei Chen
E-214 Monochromatic 10 MeV Gammas by a Miniature Undulator  Michael Di Rosa LANL Michael Di Rosa
E-215 ​High-quality witness bunch generation and acceleration  Jens Osterhoff  DESY Jens Osterhoff
E-216 Single Shot Femtosecond Beam Pulse Length Measurements  Ralph Fiorito University of Maryland Ralph Fiorito
E-217 Ionization and down-ramp injection proposal by the E200 team  Chan Joshi UCLA Chan Joshi
E-218 ​Single-Shot Imaging of THz-Induced Switching in IT Materials  Matthias Hoffmann SLAC Matthias Hoffmen
E-224 Visualization of electron-driven plasma wakefield accelerators​ Mike Downer UT Austin Michael Downer
E-225 Hollow Channel Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Mark Hogan SLAC Spencer Gessner
E-226 Energy-Chirp Compensation of Electron Beams in a Plasma Christopher Behrens DESY  
E-228 Terahertz-driven structural dynamics in ferroelectric nanolayers Aaron Lindenberg SLAC  
T-500 Characterizing Terahertz Radiation from the FACET Beam Alan Fisher SLAC Alan Fisher
T-503 North Damping Ring Measurements Alan Fisher SLAC Alan Fisher
T-504 Hollow Channel PWFA with electrons Mark Hogan SLAC Spencer Gessner