%0 Journal Article
%T The FLASHForward Facility at DESY
%A A. Aschikhin
%A C. Behrens
%A S. Bohlen
%A J. Dale
%A N. Delbos
%A L. di Lucchio
%A E. Elsen
%A J. -H. Erbe
%A M. Felber
%A B. Foster
%A L. Goldberg
%A J. Grebenyuk
%A J. -N. Gruse
%A B. Hidding
%A Zhanghu Hu
%A S. Karstensen
%A A. Knetsch
%A O. Kononenko
%A V. Libov
%A K. Ludwig
%A A. R. Maier
%A A. Martinez de la Ossa
%A T. Mehrling
%A C. A. J. Palmer
%A F. Pannek
%A L. Schaper
%A H. Schlarb
%A B. Schmidt
%A S. Schreiber
%A J. -P. Schwinkendorf
%A H. Steel
%A M. Streeter
%A G. Tauscher
%A V. Wacker
%A S. Weichert
%A S. Wunderlich
%A J. Zemella
%A J. Osterhoff
%J Physics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/j.nima.2015.10.005
%X The FLASHForward project at DESY is a pioneering plasma-wakefield acceleration experiment that aims to produce, in a few centimetres of ionised hydrogen, beams with energy of order GeV that are of quality sufficient to be used in a free-electron laser. The plasma wave will be driven by high-current density electron beams from the FLASH linear accelerator and will explore both external and internal witness-beam injection techniques. The plasma is created by ionising a gas in a gas cell with a multi-TW laser system, which can also be used to provide optical diagnostics of the plasma and electron beams due to the <30 fs synchronisation between the laser and the driving electron beam. The operation parameters of the experiment are discussed, as well as the scientific program.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03192v2