Status report of the ESCULAP project at Orsay: External injection of low energy electrons in a Plasma

Elsa Baynard (1) , Christelle Bruni (2) , Kevin Cassou (2) , Vincent Chaumat (2) , Nicolas Delerue (2) , Julien Demailly (3) , Denis Douillet (2) , Noureddine El Kamchi (2) , David Garzella (4, 5) , Olivier Guilbaud (3) , Stephane Jenzer (2) , Sophie Kazamias (3) , Viacheslav Kubytskyi (2) , Pierre Lepercq (2) , Bruno Lucas (3) , Gilles Maynard (3) , Olivier Neveu (3) , Moana Pittman (1) , Rui Prazeres (1) , Harsh Purwar (2) , David Ros (3) , Cynthia Vallerand , Ke Wang (2)

1 Université Paris-Saclay
2 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
3 LPGP - Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas
4 LIDYL - Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (ex SPAM)
5 SLIC - Serveurs Laser

The ESCULAP project aims at studying external injection of low energy (10 MeV) electrons in a plasma in the quasilinear regime. This facility will use the photo injector PHIL and the high power laser LASERIX. We will give a status report of the preliminary work on the facility and the status of the two machines. We will also present the results of simulations showing the expected performances of the facility.

Mots clés: External injection; Laser plasma acceleration; LPWA; Gas cell; Magnetic compression

Domaines: Physique des accélérateurs [physics.acc-ph]

Elsa Baynard, Christelle Bruni, Kevin Cassou, Vincent Chaumat, Nicolas Delerue, et al.. Status report of the ESCULAP project at Orsay: External injection of low energy electrons in a Plasma. 3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Sep 2017, La Biodola, Italy. pp.46-48, ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.013⟩. ⟨hal-01729964⟩