Author: Reiche, S.
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MOPSO09 Investigation of a 2-Colour Undulator FEL Using Puffin 47
 
  • L.T. Campbell, B.W.J. MᶜNeil
    USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  The unaveraged FEL code Puffin* is used to investigate a 2 color FEL. In the scheme under investigation, undulator modules are tuned alternately to generate 2 frequencies quasi-simultaneously, which should result in greater stability than generating them consecutively. The advantage of using Puffin is that it provides the capability of modelling a broad bandwidth spectrum. For example, radiation at 1nm and 2.4nm is difficult to model simultaneously in standard averaged FEL codes. An unaveraged code like Puffin is able to model 2 (or more) wavelengths with a much wider spacing.
* LT Campbell and BWJ McNeil, Phys. Plasmas 19, 093119 (2012)
 
 
MOPSO66 Start-to-end Simulation of a Next Generation Light Source Using the Real Number of Electrons 112
 
  • J. Qiang, J.N. Corlett, P. Emma, C.E. Mitchell, C. F. Papadopoulos, G. Penn, M.W. Reinsch, R.D. Ryne, M. Venturini
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  Funding: This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Start-to-end simulation plays an important role in design and optimization of next generation light sources. In this paper, we will present start-to-end (from the photocathode to the end of undulator) simulations of a high repetition rate FEL-based Next Generation Light Source driven by CW superconducting linac with the real number of electrons (~2 billion electrons/bunch) using the multi-physics parallel beam dynamics code IMPACT. We will discuss challenges, numerical methods and physical models used in the simulation. We will also present simulation results of a beam transporting through photoinjector, beam delivery system, and final X-ray FEL radiation.
 
 
MOPSO73 Suface Roughness Wakefield in FEL Undulator 127
 
  • G.V. Stupakov
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  Among several wakefield models for the FEL undulator vacuum chamber a simple sinusoidal wall modulation with a small ratio of height to wavelength is especially attractive because of its simplicity [1]. The model neglects a so called resonant mode wakefield and has an (integrable) singularity at the origin which makes difficult its use in practical simulations. In this work we generalize the longitudinal wake of a sinusoidally modulated wall to include the effect of the resonant mode. This also removes the singularity of the wake at the origin. The new wake is used to evaluate the roughness wakefield effect in the undulator of SwissFEL.
[1] G. Stupakov, in "Nonlinear and Collective Phenomena in Beam Physics 1998" Workshop, New York (1999), no. 468 in AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 334–47.
 
 
TUOCNO06 Slice Emittance Optimization at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility 200
 
  • E. Prat, M. Aiba, S. Bettoni, B. Beutner, M.W. Guetg, R. Ischebeck, S. Reiche, T. Schietinger
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  Slice emittance measurements in the SwissFEL injector test facility have demonstrated emittances for the 10pC-200pC bunch charges which are well below the tight requirements of SwissFEL. Results, emittance tuning strategy and measurement methods are reported.  
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TUPSO03 Dark Current Transport and Collimation Studies for SwissFEL 209
 
  • S. Bettoni, P. Craievich, M. Pedrozzi, S. Reiche, L. Stingelin
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  In all accelerating cavities a non negligible background of electrons can be generated by field emission (dark current), transported and further accelerated. A careful estimate of the transport of the dark current is crucial in order to minimize radiation damage to the components and activation of the machine. This paper describes the generation and the transport of dark current from the SwissFEL photo injector downstream of the accelerator. The analysis is based on numerical simulations and experimental measurements performed at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility (SITF). In the simulations the charge distribution is generated by an emission model based on the Fowler-Nordheim equation taking into account the filling time of the cavity and then tracked through the machine. This model has been used to analyze the impact of a low energy collimation system upstream of the first travelling wave accelerating structure on the dark current transport. A slit with several apertures has been installed in the SITF to benchmark the simulations and to verify the impact of the wakefields on the nominal beam.  
 
TUPSO04 Simulations of a Corrugated Beam Pipe for the Chirp Compensation in SwissFEL 214
 
  • S. Bettoni, P. Craievich, M. Pedrozzi, S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  In short wavelength FEL designs, bunch compression is obtained by making the beam passing through a magnetic chicane with an energy chirp typically of a percent level. At SwissFEL, before injection into the undulator it is foreseen to remove the residual chirp using the wakes in the C-band accelerating structures of the linac. This scheme works well for the hard X-ray undulator line, which includes the largest accumulation of wakefields, but it leaves a residual chirp in the other undulator line for the soft X-ray beam line, midway in the main linac. Another possibility to remove the residual chirp consists in using the longitudinal wakefields generated by a corrugated beam pipe, as recently proposed by G. Stupakov et al. Before planning a dechirper section in a FEL, an experimental verification of the analytical formulae describing the wakefields is crucial. The SwissFEL injector test facility (SITF) fulfils all the necessary criteria to perform such a proof of principle. We are investigating the technical implementation to perform an experiment in SITF in the second half of 2014. In this paper we present the tracking studies performed to optimize the experiment layout.  
 
TUPSO07 SwissFEL Injector Design: An Automatic Procedure 219
 
  • S. Bettoni, M. Pedrozzi, S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  The first section of photo-injectors are dominated by space charge effects due to the low beam energy and the high charge density. An optimization of several parameters such as the emittance and the mismatch along the bunch has to be carried out in order to optimize the final performances of the machine. We focus on the performances of the gun developed at PSI, planned to be installed in the mid of this year in the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility (SITF). Due to the number of variables and constraints we developed a code to automatically perform such an optimization. We used this code to optimize the 200 pC operating point of SwissFEL and to fine tune other charges configurations from 10 pC, obtaining considerably reduction of the slice emittance as compared to the CTF gun, presently installed in the SITF and on which the old lattice optimization was based. The same code with minor modifications has been successfully applied to the facility.  
 
TUPSO22 Status of SwissFEL Undulator Lines 263
 
  • R. Ganter, M. Aiba, H.-H. Braun, M. Calvi, P. Heimgartner, G. Janzi, H. Jöhri, R. Kobler, F. Löhl, M. Negrazus, L. Patthey, E. Prat, S. Reiche, S. Sanfilippo, U. Schaer, T. Schmidt, L. Schulz, V. Vranković, J. Wickstroem
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  An overview of the Aramis Hard-X ray FEL line of SwissFEL is presented, showing its future integration in the tunnel as well as the space reservation for possible future upgrades: Athos Soft X-ray FEL line, post-undulator deflecting cavities. The design of the FEL components like the energy collimator, the matching sections or the dog leg transfer line linking the linac to the future Athos line are almost completed. The characterization of the in-vacuum undulator prototype is described in a companion paper. The installation of the components will start in spring 2015 while the first photons are planned for December 2016 with the alignment and adjustment of the undulators foreseen for first SASE operation by spring 2017 .  
 
TUPSO24 Dispersion Based Beam Tilt Correction 267
 
  • M.W. Guetg, B. Beutner, E. Prat, S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  In Free Electron Lasers (FEL), a transverse centroid misalignment of longitudinal slices in an electron bunch reduces the effective overlap between radiation field and electron bunch and therefore the FEL performance. The dominant sources of slice misalignments for FELs are the incoherent and coherent synchrotron radiation within bunch compressors as well as transverse wake fields in the accelerating cavities. This is of particular importance for over-compression which is required for one of the key operation modes for the SwissFEL planned at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The centroid shift is corrected using corrector magnets in dispersive sections, e.g. the bunch compressors. First and second order corrections are achieved by pairs of sextupole and quadrupole magnets in the horizontal plane while skew quadrupoles correct to first order in the vertical plane. Simulations and measurements at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility are done to investigate the proposed correction scheme for SwissFEL. This paper presents the methods and results obtained.  
 
WEPSO51 Self-seeding Design for SwissFEL 618
 
  • E. Prat, S. Reiche
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  The SwissFEL facility, planned at the Paul Scherrer Institute, will provide SASE and self-seeded FEL radiation at a hard (1-7 Å) and soft (7-70 Å) X-ray FEL beamlines. This paper presents the current status of the self-seeding design for SwissFEL. The layout and full 6D start-to-end simulation results are presented for the hard X-ray beamline. Studies for different charges and optimization of the first and second undulator stages are shown.