Application programmes at the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA)

TY - GEN

T1 - Application programmes at the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA)

AU - Wiggins, S. M.

AU - Boyd, M.

AU - Brunetti, E.

AU - Butler, N. M.H.

AU - Feehan, J. S.

AU - Gray, R. J.

AU - Hidding, B.

AU - Ireland, D. G.

AU - Li, W.

AU - Maitrallain, A.

AU - Manahan, G. G.

AU - McKenna, P.

AU - O'Donnell, D.

AU - Scheck, M.

AU - Shahzad, M.

AU - Sheng, Z. M.

AU - Spesyvtsev, R.

AU - Vieux, G.

AU - Watts, D. P.

AU - Welsh, G. H.

AU - Zachariou, N.

AU - Jaroszynski, D. A.

N1 - Funding Information: We acknowledge support of the U.K. EPSRC (grant no. EP/K011952/1 Funding Information: We acknowledge support of the U.K. EPSRC (grant no. EP/K011952/1, EP/J018171/1, EP/N028694/1, EP/J500094/1, EP/P020607/1, EP/R006202/1), the Scottish Funding Council, the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 654148 Laserlab-Europe and grant agreement no. 653782 EuPRAXIA and also the the European Union's Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Project. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 SPIE.

PY - 2019/4/24

Y1 - 2019/4/24

N2 - The Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA) is a research centre dedicated to providing high energy particle beams and high peak brightness radiation pulses for users across all scientific and engineering disciplines. A pair of Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser systems (40 TW peak power at 10 Hz pulse repetition rate and 350 TW at 5 Hz, respectively) are the drivers for a suite of laser-plasma accelerator beamlines housed across a series of radiation shielded areas. The petawatt-scale laser delivers 45 W of average power that establishes it as the world leader in its class. The University of Strathclyde has had an operational laser wakefield accelerator since 2007 as the centrepiece of the ongoing Advanced Laser Plasma High-energy Accelerators towards X-rays (ALPHA-X) project. SCAPA, which is a multipartner venture under the auspices of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, continues the dedicated beamline approach pioneered by ALPHA-X and represents a significant expansion in the UK's experimental capability at the university level in laser-driven acceleration. The new centre supports seven radiation beamlines across three concrete shielded bunkers that each nominally specialise in a different aspect of fundamental laser-plasma interaction physics and radiation sources: GeVscale electron beams, MeV/c proton and ion beams, X-rays, gamma rays and so on. Development of application programmes based on these sources cover a wide range of fields including nuclear physics, radiotherapy, space radiation reproduction, warm dense matter, high field physics and radioisotope generation.

AB - The Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA) is a research centre dedicated to providing high energy particle beams and high peak brightness radiation pulses for users across all scientific and engineering disciplines. A pair of Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser systems (40 TW peak power at 10 Hz pulse repetition rate and 350 TW at 5 Hz, respectively) are the drivers for a suite of laser-plasma accelerator beamlines housed across a series of radiation shielded areas. The petawatt-scale laser delivers 45 W of average power that establishes it as the world leader in its class. The University of Strathclyde has had an operational laser wakefield accelerator since 2007 as the centrepiece of the ongoing Advanced Laser Plasma High-energy Accelerators towards X-rays (ALPHA-X) project. SCAPA, which is a multipartner venture under the auspices of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, continues the dedicated beamline approach pioneered by ALPHA-X and represents a significant expansion in the UK's experimental capability at the university level in laser-driven acceleration. The new centre supports seven radiation beamlines across three concrete shielded bunkers that each nominally specialise in a different aspect of fundamental laser-plasma interaction physics and radiation sources: GeVscale electron beams, MeV/c proton and ion beams, X-rays, gamma rays and so on. Development of application programmes based on these sources cover a wide range of fields including nuclear physics, radiotherapy, space radiation reproduction, warm dense matter, high field physics and radioisotope generation.

KW - applications

KW - femtosecond lasers

KW - ion beams

KW - laser-plasma

KW - plasma accelerator

KW - radiation sources

KW - Ti:sapphire

KW - wakefield

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071636408&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1117/12.2520717

DO - 10.1117/12.2520717

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85071636408

T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

BT - Relativistic Plasma Waves and Particle Beams as Coherent and Incoherent Radiation Sources III

A2 - Hur, MinSup

A2 - Jaroszynski, Dino A.

PB - SPIE

T2 - Relativistic Plasma Waves and Particle Beams as Coherent and Incoherent Radiation Sources III 2019

Y2 - 3 April 2019 through 4 April 2019

ER -