• N. Milas, C.H. Gough
  PSI, Villigen

The SwissFEL facility will produce coherent, ultra-bright, and ultra-short photon pulses covering a wavelength range from 0.1 nm to 7 nm, requiring an emittance between 0.18 to 0.43 mm mrad. In order to provide electrons to the soft X-ray beam line of the SwissFEL a switchyard is necessary, which will divert the electron beam, with an energy of 3.4 GeV, after the first set of accelerating structures. This switchyard has to be design in such a way to guarantee that beam properties like low emittance, high peak charge and small bunch length will not be spoiled. In this paper we present the schematics and discuss ideas and constraints on the kicker, misalignments and charge fluctuation for the SwissFEL switchyard.