Author: Staples, J.W.
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MOPIK019 Upgrade Options Towards Higher Fields and Beam Energies for Continuous-Wave Room-Temperature VHF RF Guns 542
 
  • F. Sannibale, J.M. Byrd, D. Filippetto, M.J. Johnson, D. Li, T.H. Luo, C.E. Mitchell, J.W. Staples, S.P. Virostek
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the Director of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract no. DEAC02-05CH11231
Science demand for MHz-class repetition rate electron beam applications such as free electron lasers (FELs), inverse Compton scattering sources, and ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy (UED/UEM), pushed the development of new gun schemes that could generate high brightness beams at such high rates. At the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBNL), we proposed a new concept room-temperature RF gun resonating in the VHF frequency range (30-300 MHz) capable of operating in continuous wave mode at the fields required for high-brightness performance. A first VHF-Gun was constructed and tested in the APEX facility at LBNL, which successfully demonstrated all design parameters and the generation of high brightness electron beams. A second version of the APEX VHF-Gun is being built at LBNL for the LCLS-II, the new SLAC X-ray FEL. Recent studies showed that a proposed LCLS-II upgrade and UED/UEM applications would greatly benefit from an increased gun brightness obtained by raising the electric field at the cathode and the beam energy at the gun exit. In this paper, we present and discuss possible upgrade options that would allow extension of the VHF-Gun performance towards these new goals.
 
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THPIK120 The RF and Mechanical Design of a Compact, 2.5 kW, 1.3 GHz Resonant Loop Coupler for the APEX Buncher Cavity 4380
 
  • S.P. Virostek, F. Sannibale, J.W. Staples
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • H.J. Qian
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the Office of Science, United States Department of Energy under DOE contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The Advanced Photo-injector Experiment (APEX) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is an injector system designed to demonstrate the capability of a normal conducting 186 MHz RF gun operating in CW mode to deliver the brightness required by X-ray FEL applications operating at MHz repetition rate, such as LCLS-II. A 240 kV, 1.3 GHz CW buncher cavity design was developed as part of the APEX experiment. The two-cell cavity profile has been optimized to minimize the RF power requirements and to remove multipacting resonances over the full range of operation. In order to excite the cavity stably at pi-mode and remove the dipole-like coupler kick, the two cells are to be independently driven by four, 2.5 kW, coaxial resonant loop couplers with integrated ceramic windows and a matching section in the body of the coupler. The coupler's inner conductor has a single diameter change at a specified distance from the ceramic insulator in order to cancel the wave reflected from the ceramic window, thus comprising the matching section. The details of the RF analysis, mechanical design, fabrication and testing of the coupler are presented here.
 
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