Author: Chin, M.J.
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MOPPR075 Status of the APEX Beam Diagnostic and First Measurements 963
 
  • D. Filippetto, M.J. Chin, C.W. Cork, S. De Santis, L.R. Doolittle, W.E. Norum, C. F. Papadopoulos, G.J. Portmann, D.G. Quintas, F. Sannibale, R.P. Wells, M.S. Zolotorev
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  The APEX project aims to the construction of a high brightness high repetition rate photo-injector at LBNL. In its first phase a 750 keV electron bunch is produced at a maximum repetition rate of 1 MHz, with an adjustable charge per bunch spanning the pC-to-nC region. A load lock system is foreseen to test different cathodes without the need of breaking the vacuum and the downstream diagnostic is used to characterize the photo-emitted beam brightness. In the initial phase the main effort is directed toward the measurement of photocurrent, dark current, thermal emittance and electron beam kinetic energy. In a successive phase, diagnostic for full 6D phase space characterization of space charge dominated beams will be added to the beamline. We report and discuss the present diagnostic beamline layout, first beam measurements and future upgrades.