Author: Petrosyan, B.
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THP13 Emission Studies of Photocathode RF Gun at PITZ 242
 
  • J. Li, G. Asova, M. Groß, L. Hakobyan, I.I. Isaev, Ye. Ivanisenko, M. Khojoyan, G. Klemz, G. Kourkafas, M. Krasilnikov, K. Kusoljariyakul, M. Mahgoub, D. Malyutin, B. Marchetti, A. Oppelt, B. Petrosyan, S. Rimjaem, A. Shapovalov, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • G. Feng
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • D. Richter
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • L. Shang
    USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
 
  The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ), was built to develop and optimize electron sources for linac based Free Electron Lasers(FELs) like FLASH and the European XFEL. For the value of the bunch charge extracted from a photocathode, discrepancy has been observed between the data measured at PITZ and simulation results from the ASTRA code. As a factor which could explain the discrepancy, a Schottky-like effect is considered. Meanwhile, the Parmela code was applied to the emission studies on the PITZ gun as benchmark. Since Parmela cannot be used to simulate a Schottky-like effect with its own modules, MATLAB scripts have been developed to implement this feature of the photoemission in an RF gun.