Description
The FLASHForward experiment is a beam-driven plasma-wakefield accelerator at the FEL user facility FLASH in Hamburg. The long-term goal is to produce efficiently high-quality electrons bunches with high accelerating gradients >1 GV/m at MHz repetition rate. To achieve this, an important and time-consuming task is the preparation of the FLASH electron beam before the actual injection into the plasma which needs precise control of various parameters.
In this project the tuning of final focus of the electron beam into the plasma cell should automated to setup and/or recover the optimal state. It can be broken down into three sub-tasks: (1) particle tracking and plasma particle-in-cell simulations to mimic the available beam diagnostics, (2) isolation of the most sensitive tuning parameters and their signature in the diagnostics and (3) using machine learning to identify potential states and to tune the final focus.
Special Qualifications:
interested in plasma wakefield accelerators, eager to learn, experience in Python programming, first experience with machine learning is welcomed
| Field | B4: Research on Accelerators |
|---|---|
| DESY Place | Hamburg |
| DESY Division | FH |
| DESY Group | FTX |
