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TY - CONF AU - Salgado-López, C. AU - Curcio, A. AU - Gatti, G. AU - Henares, J.L. AU - Imanol Apiñaniz, J. AU - Pérez-Hernández, J.A.P. AU - Volpe, L. AU - de Luis, D. ED - Forck, Peter ED - Wawrzyniak, Adriana ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Kowalski, Grzegorz W. ED - Cudek, Agnieszka (SOLARIS, Kraków TI - Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators J2 - Proc. of IBIC2022, Kraków, Poland, 11-15 September 2022 CY - Kraków, Poland T2 - International Beam Instrumentation Conference T3 - 11 LA - english AB - Laser-plasma driven accelerators have become reliable sources of low-emittance, broadband and multi-species ion sources, with cut-off energies above the MeV-level*. We report on the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle resolved Thomson parabola spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams able to distinguish between ionic species with different q/m ratio. The angular resolving power, which is achieved due to an array of entrance pinholes, can be simply adjusted by modifying the geometry of the experiment and/or the pinhole array itself. The analysis procedure allows for different ion traces to cross on the detector plane, which greatly enhances the flexibility and capabilities of the detector. A full characterization of the TP magnetic field has been implemented into a relativistic code developed for the trajectory calculation of each beamlet. High repetition rate compatibility is guaranteed by the use of a MCP as active particle detector. We describe the first test of the spectrometer at the 1PW VEGA 3 laser facility at CLPU, Salamanca (Spain), where up to 15MeV protons and carbon ions from a 3-micron laser-irradiated metallic foil are detected**. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 352 EP - 356 KW - laser KW - proton KW - detector KW - experiment KW - HOM DA - 2022/12 PY - 2022 SN - 2673-5350 SN - 978-3-95450-241-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-TU3C2 UR - https://jacow.org/ibic2022/papers/tu3c2.pdf ER -