Plasma switch as a temporal overlap tool for pump-probe experiments at FEL facilities

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Harmand, M ^a   Murphy, D ^b   Brown, D ^b,l   Cammarata, M ^c   Doppner T ^d   Dusterer S ^a   Fritz, D ^c   Forster E ^e,j   Galtier, E ⁱ   Gaudin, J ^f   Glenzer, H ^d   Gode S ^g   Gregori, G ^b   Hilbert, V ^e   Hochhaus, D ^h   Laarmann, T ^a   Lee, J ^c   Lemke, H ^c   Meiwes Broer, K H ^g   Moinard, A ⁱ   Neumayer, P ^h,k   Przystawik, A ^a   Redlin, H ^a   Schulz, M ^a   Skruszewicz, S ^g   Tavella, F ^a   Tschentscher, T ^f   White, T ^b   Zastrau, U ^e   Toleikis, S ^a   more..

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^h GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

ⁱ ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^j HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^k EMMI   (Germany)

^l AWE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

beam intensity monitors; Beam line instrumentation (beam position and profile monitors; bunch length monitors); Instrumentation for FEL; Timing detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865214612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/08/P08007     Document Type: Article

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