HZB, Berlin, Germany
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is constructing the Energy Recovery Linac Prototype BERLinPro, a SRF based demonstration facility for the science and technology of ERLs for future high power, high brilliance electron beam applications. BERLinPro was designed to accelerate a high current (100 mA, 50 MeV), high brilliance (norm. emittance below 1 mm mrad) cw electron beam. Given the recent prioritization of the BESSY II upgrade to the BESSY VSR variable pulse length storage ring, HZB is forced to reduce the project goals of BERLinPro. As a result, the project had to be rescoped with the goal to maximize its scientific impact within the present boundary conditions. We report on the last year’s progress of the building, the warm and cold infrastructure and on the time line, goals nd opportunities for the remaining project run time.
HZB, Berlin, Germany
BERLinPro is an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) project currently being set up at HZB, Berlin. During the turn of the project, many adaptations of the optics to changing hardware realities were necessary. To name only one, commissioning of the recirculator will now be realized with the superconducting linac module fabricated for the Mainz ERL project MESA, as the BERLinPro linac is delayed. The Mainz linac will supply roughly 60% of the energy planned for the BERLinPro linac module and will be limited by higher order modes in the cavities to few mA of current. While the adapted optics shows similar parameters as the original 50MeV optics, studies of longitudinal space charge and coherent synchrotron radiation show that the energy leads to large emittance blow up due toμbunching. Furthermore, preparations for commissioning with gun fields much lower than the original 30MV/m in the 1.4 cell SRF gun are introduced and according optics are presented.