26–31 Jul 2026
Luskin Conference Center, UCLA
US/Pacific timezone

Magnetic Field Measurements and Reconstruction of very Broadband Electron Spectrometer for Plasma Experiments

28 Jul 2026, 16:00
20m
Ballroom C&D (Luskin)

Ballroom C&D

Luskin

To be considered for Working Group talk A5-Working group # 5

Speaker

Jack Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles)

Description

A very broadband, beta spectrometer, capable of measuring electron energy ranging from 1MeV to 100MeV has been developed and installed for UCLA’s MITHRA facility for plasma wakefield experiments. This spectrometer employs sextupole-like fields to strongly bend electrons into a scintillating screen. Due to the large and complex geometry of the magnet, the magnetic fields are difficult to precisely reconstruct. Furthermore, accurate magnetic field measurements are essential for low-error spectrometer measurements. We have previously developed a reconstruction algorithm that employs a k-nearest neighbors (KNN) search to locally fit harmonic polynomials. To this end, we present both the measurements and finer grid reconstruction of this novel electron spectrometer.

Working group WG5

Author

Jack Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles)

Co-authors

Brian Naranjo (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) Oliver Williams (University of California, Los Angeles) James Rosenzweig (University of California, Los Angeles)

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