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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 81, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3458013
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- DFG
- Laserlab-Europe/Laptech [228334]
- Association EURATOM-Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik
- Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Laser wakefield experiments present a unique challenge in measuring the resulting electron energy properties due to the large energy range of interest, typically several 100 MeV, and the large electron beam divergence and pointing jitter >1 mrad. In many experiments the energy resolution and accuracy are limited by the convolved transverse spot size and pointing jitter of the beam. In this paper we present an electron energy spectrometer consisting of two magnets designed specifically for laser wakefield experiments. In the primary magnet the field is produced by permanent magnets. A second optional electromagnet can be used to obtain better resolution for electron energies above 75 MeV. The spectrometer has an acceptance of 2.5-400 MeV (E(max)/E(min) > 100) with a resolution of better than 1% rms for electron energies above 25 MeV. This high resolution is achieved by refocusing electrons in the energy plane and without any postprocessing image deconvolution. Finally, the spectrometer employs two complimentary detection mechanisms: (1) absolutely calibrated scintillation screens imaged by cameras outside the vacuum chamber and (2) an array of scintillating fibers coupled to a low-noise charge-coupled device. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3458013]
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