SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Commissioning of the LCLS-II photoinjector started in late 2018. Efforts to accurately model the gun and laser profiles is ongoing. Simulations of the photoinjector and solenoid are performed in ASTRA, IMPACT-T and OPAL-T. This work includes efforts to use the laser profile at the virtual cathode as the initial transverse beam distribution, and effects of 2D and 3D field maps. Beam size results are compared to experimental measurements taken at the YAG screen located after the gun.
