FEL2014 - List of Authors (Gai, W.)

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A Collinear Wakefield Accelerator for a High Repetition Rate Multi-beamline Soft X-ray FEL Facility

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A. Zholents, W. Gai, R.R. Lindberg, J.G. Power, Y.-E. Sun
ANL, Argonne, Ilinois, USA
C.-J. Jing, A. Kanareykin
Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA
C. Li, C.-X. Tang
TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
D.Y. Shchegolkov, E.I. Simakov
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: Supported by U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 and by the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory LDRD program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A concept is presented for a multi beamline soft x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility where several FEL undulator lines are driven by an equal number of high repetition rate single-stage collinear wakefield accelerators (CWA). A practical design of the CWA, extending over 30 meters and embedded into a quadrupole wiggler, is considered. The wiggler’s structure of alternating focusing and defocusing quadrupoles is used to control single-bunch breakup instability. It is shown that practical restrictions on the maximum attainable quadrupole field limit the maximum attainable charge in the drive bunch whose sole purpose is to produce a high accelerating field in the CWA for the following main bunch. It is also pointed out that the distance between drive and main bunches varies along the accelerator, causing a measurable impact on the energy gain by the main bunch and on the energy spread of electrons in it. Means to mitigate these effects are proposed and results are presented for numerical simulations demonstrating the main bunch with plausible parameters for FEL application including a relatively small energy spread. Finally, results are presented for the expected FEL performance using an appropriately chosen undulator.

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FRB02	A Collinear Wakefield Accelerator for a High Repetition Rate Multi-beamline Soft X-ray FEL Facility	993
	A. Zholents, W. Gai, R.R. Lindberg, J.G. Power, Y.-E. Sun ANL, Argonne, Ilinois, USA C.-J. Jing, A. Kanareykin Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA C. Li, C.-X. Tang TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China D.Y. Shchegolkov, E.I. Simakov LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: Supported by U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 and by the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory LDRD program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A concept is presented for a multi beamline soft x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility where several FEL undulator lines are driven by an equal number of high repetition rate single-stage collinear wakefield accelerators (CWA). A practical design of the CWA, extending over 30 meters and embedded into a quadrupole wiggler, is considered. The wiggler’s structure of alternating focusing and defocusing quadrupoles is used to control single-bunch breakup instability. It is shown that practical restrictions on the maximum attainable quadrupole field limit the maximum attainable charge in the drive bunch whose sole purpose is to produce a high accelerating field in the CWA for the following main bunch. It is also pointed out that the distance between drive and main bunches varies along the accelerator, causing a measurable impact on the energy gain by the main bunch and on the energy spread of electrons in it. Means to mitigate these effects are proposed and results are presented for numerical simulations demonstrating the main bunch with plausible parameters for FEL application including a relatively small energy spread. Finally, results are presented for the expected FEL performance using an appropriately chosen undulator.
	Slides FRB02 [6.512 MB]