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The FLASHForward facility at DESY
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Aschikhin, A; Behrens, C; Bohlen, S; Dale, J; Delbos, N; Di Lucchio, L; Elsen, E; Erbe, JH; Felber, M; Foster, B; Goldberg, L; Grebenyuk, J; Gruse, JN; Hidding, B; Hu, Z; Karstensen, S; Knetsch, A; Kononenko, O; Libov, V; Ludwig, K; Maier, AR; Martinez De La Ossa, A; Mehrling, T; Palmer, CAJ; Pannek, F; Schaper, L; Schlarb, H; Schmidt, B; Schreiber, S; Schwinkendorf, JP; Steel, H; Streeter, M; Tauscher, G; Wacker, V; Weichert, S; Wunderlich, S; Zemella, J; Osterhoff, J
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The FLASHForward project at DESY is a pioneering plasma-wakefield acceleration experiment that aims to produce, in a few centimetres of ionised hydrogen, beams with energy of order GeV that are of quality sufficient to be used in a free-electron laser. The plasma is created by ionising a gas in a gas cell with a multi-TW laser system. The plasma wave will be driven by high-current-density electron beams from the FLASH linear accelerator. The laser system can also be used to provide optical diagnostics of the plasma and electron beams due to the