| Title |
First Test of The Imperial College Gabor (Plasma) Lens prototype at the Surrey Ion Beam centre |
| Authors |
- P.A. Posocco, J.K. Pozimski, Y. Xia
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
- M.J. Merchant
UoM ICS, Manchester, United Kingdom
- M.J. Merchant
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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| Abstract |
The first plasma (Gabor) lens prototype operating at high electron density was built by the Imperial College London in 2015. In November 2015 the lens was tested at the Ion Beam Centre of the University of Surrey with a 1 MeV proton beam. Over 500 snapshots of the beam hitting a scintillator screen installed 0.5 m downstream of the lens were taken for a wide range of settings. Unexpectedly, instead of over- or underfocusing the incoming particles, the lens converted pencil beams into rings. In addition to the dependence of their radius on the lens settings, periodic features appeared along the circumference, suggesting that the electron plasma was exited into a coherent off-axis rotation. The cause of this phenomenon is under investigation.
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| Funding |
Funding was provided by the Imperial College Confidence in Concepts scheme. |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
IPAC2016, Busan, Korea |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (7th) |
| Proceedings |
Link to full IPAC2016 Proccedings |
| Session |
Poster Session |
| Date |
10-May-16 16:00–18:00 |
| Main Classification |
03 Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques |
| Sub Classification |
A15 New Acceleration Techniques |
| Keywords |
plasma, proton, electron, background, ion |
| Publisher |
JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editors |
Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland); Dong Eon Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Kyung Sook Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); In Soo Ko (POSTECH, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| ISBN |
978-3-95450-147-2 |
| Published |
June 2016 |
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