Present: Federico, Gianluca, Halina, Ivo, Matthew, Ruth
Apologies: Ben, Louis, Massimo, Noam
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ELBEX / General
- Funding for fusion experiment not as quick as hoped for, although it is one of EuXFEL's science pillars and so they are committed.
- Some discussion amongst the Directorates of DESY and EuXFEL needed.
- Ruth reported that the ELBEX team are starting to put a small working-group together to design the beamline and cost what would be needed for LUXE.
- Work also ongoing on possible facility for plasma wakefield acceleration.
- Interest from LUPE people to be more joined up with LUXE.
- If their synergy grant is succesful could bring in resources for detectors and laser.
- Even if not successful, interest from Andi Maier (laser plasma leader at DESY) to contribute.
- Overall technical timeline: commissioning of ELBEX in 2029 and possible LUXE data taking in 2030.
Laser
- Refurbishment of laser room in HERA West ongoing with aim to have done by the end of the year.
- Laser safety team in place.
- Default is to have the laser kept "alive" by periodic testing.
- Experiments, e.g. diagnostic development for LUXE, may be possible but needs extra resources and also radiation and safety levels need to be assessed.
Software and analysis
- Sasha has the CAD for the new experimental area and is working on lxsim.
Electron detection system
- Antonios is starting to write his thesis; Luke will start soon. Ivo is now in Zurich, having left DESY.
Positron detection system
- As such a large amount of data was collected at the beam tests, DESY IT need to provide temporary disc space before then transferring to outside institutes. This is a possible solution for any future disc needs from e.g. beam tests.
Photon detection system
- Will perform tests of the gamma ray spectrometer and profiler at the ZEUS petawatt laser in Michigan. Using real Compton events.
- Analysis of the profiler data from CLEAR tests is still ongoing.
Next meeting: Wednesday 30th July at 11:00 (CEST).
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