Author: Johnson, A.S.
Paper Title Page
MOPC12 Coherent Synchrotron Radiation and Bunch Compression Studies in the Emittance Exchange Beamline at the Fermilab A0 Photoinjector 121
 
  • J.C.T. Thangaraj, M.D. Church, H.T. Edwards, A.S. Johnson, A.H. Lumpkin, J. Ruan, J.K. Santucci, Y.-E. Sun, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • T.J. Maxwell, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  One of goals of the Fermilab A0 photoinjector is to investigate experimentally the transverse to longitudinal emittance exchange principle. Coherent synchrotron radiation in the emittance exchange line could limit short pulse operation of the emittance exchanger. In this paper, we present experimental and simulation study of the coherent synchroton radiation (CSR) in the emittance exchange line at A0 photoinjector. We also show how EEX can be used to compress a bunch by adding chirp to the incoming beam.  
 
THOA3 Demonstration of Transverse-to-longitudinal Emittance Exchange at A0 Photoinjector 443
 
  • J. Ruan, A.S. Johnson, A.H. Lumpkin, Y.-E. Sun, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  The 3-D phase-space manipulation of electron beams enhances the performance of next generation accelerators including high energy colliders and accelerator based light sources. In this paper we will report an observation of near ideal transverse to longitudinal emittance exchange at the Fermilab A0 Photoinjector. The emittance exchange (EEX) beamline consists a 3.9 GHz normal conducting deflecting mode cavity positioned between two magnetic doglegs. We will also compare the experiment results to simulations.  
 
THPB19 Investigations of OTR Polarization Effects in Beam-profile Monitors 594
 
  • A.H. Lumpkin, A.S. Johnson, J. Ruan, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The characterization of transverse beam size using optical transition radiation (OTR) imaging is a well-established technique at many accelerators including the Fermilab A0 photoinjector (A0PI) facility. However, there is growing empirical evidence that the utilization of the polarization component orthogonal to the dimension of interest results in a smaller observed projected image profile. We have continued investigations of this phenomenon with a more controlled experiment where the linear polarizers are selectable in a filter wheel which also included a blank glass position to compensate for the optical path. The aperture for light collection is thus kept fixed compared to our previous tests. We also have balanced the digital camera gain to present similar signal levels to the data analysis program for both the total OTR and the polarized components. At the relatively low Lorentz factor (gamma) of 30, we observed 10-15% projected profile size reductions on a 65-micron beam size case with the perpendicularly polarized components. This anomalous effect in magnitude is compared to results from a standard OTR point-spread-function model.