Author: McKenzie, J.W.
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MOPPP021 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics at the ALICE Acclerator R&D Facility 610
 
  • F. Jackson, D. Angal-Kalinin, S.P. Jamison, J.W. McKenzie, T.T. Ng, Y.M. Saveliev, P.H. Williams
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  The ALICE facility is an energy recovery test accelerator whose applications include an IR-FEL and THz generation. Of primary importance to the performance of the main ALICE applications is the understanding and control of the longitudinal dynamics, which are less amenable to measurement than the transverse. The longitudinal dynamics of the beam evolve are studied in simulation and experiment in several areas of the machine. Simulations of the low energy injector where space charge and velocity bunching may occur are presented. Path length measurement using time-of-arrival monitors are carried out.  
 
MOPPP023 Effect of DC Photoinjector Gun Voltage on Beam Dynamics in ALICE ERL 616
 
  • Y.M. Saveliev, F. Jackson, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  The ALICE ERL employs a DC HV photoelectron gun as an electron source. As with other machines in this class, the electron beam is not always of perfect quality. This is aggravated by that the ALICE gun has been operated so far at lower 230kV voltage compared to the design value of 350kV due to hardware limitations. The “two beams” structure was observed and experimentally investigated and found to be the result of complex processes during initial stages of beam acceleration. The experimental observations and data will be compared with those obtained at a nominal 350kV gun voltage. An investigation of the effect of the DC photogun voltage on longitudinal and transverse beam dynamics will be presented and discussed.  
 
MOPPP038 Optics Design and Layout for the Electron Beam Test Facility at Daresbury Laboratory 646
 
  • D. Angal-Kalinin, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • J.K. Jones
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  An Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) is being developed at Daresbury Laboratory to provide the beam for industrial applications and as a front end of future light source facility test under consideration. The RF photoinjector will deliver ~6 MeV beam to industrial users* and will serve as an injector for the future light source facility under consideration at Daresbury**. The Photoinjector design in first phase consists of 2.5 cell RF gun (on loan from Strathclyde) to be driven by Ti:S laser. The photo injector design is aimed to deliver bunches with 10-250 pC bunch charge at low transverse emittances and short bunch lengths. The beam transport optics design described in this paper includes a dedicated diagnostics section capable of measuring ultra short and ultra low emittance bunches and transport to two user areas.
* P. McIntosh, these proceedings.
** J. Clarke, these proceedings.
 
 
TUPPD067 Experimental Facility for Measuring the Electron Energy Distribution from Photocathodes 1557
 
  • L.B. Jones, R.J. Cash, B.D. Fell, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • H.E. Scheibler, A.S. Terekhov
    ISP, Novosibirsk, Russia
 
  ASTeC have spent several years developing a GaAs Photocathode Preparation Facility (PPF) which routinely produces cathodes with quantum efficiencies (Q.E.) up to 20% at 635 nm*. The goal is to use these cathodes in high-average-current high-brightness injectors for particle accelerators. Electron injector brightness is driven by photocathode emittance, and brightness will be increased significantly by reducing the longitudinal and transverse energy spread. We are constructing an experimental system for measurement of the horizontal and transverse energy spreads at room and LN2-temperature which accepts photocathodes from the PPF. The sample will be illuminated by a small, variable-wavelength light spot. The beam image will be projected onto a detector comprised of 3 grids which act as an energy filter, a micro-channel plate and a phosphor screen. A low-noise CCD camera will capture screen images, and the electron distribution and energy spread will be extracted through analysis of these images as a function of the grid potentials. The system will include a leak valve to progressively degrade the cathode, and thus allow its properties to be measured as a function of Q.E.
* Proc IPAC ’11, THPC129 (2011).
 
 
TUPPD068 Design of the Production and Measurement of Ultra-Short Electron Bunches from an S-band RF Photoinjector 1560
 
  • J.W. McKenzie, D. Angal-Kalinin, J.K. Jones, B.L. Militsyn
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  The Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) is planned for installation in late 2012 at Daresbury Laboratory. An S-band RF photoinjector provides ultrashort, low emittance electron bunches up to 6 MeV. A suite of diagnostics has been designed to fully characterise the bunches. A particular focus has been on producing and measuring bunch lengths less than 100 fs. This can be achieved with a multi-cell standing wave S-band transverse deflecting cavity. Operating such a cavity with low energy electrons provides certain challenges which are discussed in this paper with respect to beam dynamic simulations.  
 
TUPPP066 CLARA - A Proposed New FEL Test Facility for the UK 1750
 
  • J.A. Clarke, D. Angal-Kalinin, D.J. Dunning, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, N. Thompson, P.H. Williams
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • R. Bartolini
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • I.P.S. Martin
    Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
 
  A new single pass national FEL test facility, CLARA, is proposed to be constructed at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. The aim of CLARA is to develop a normal conducting test accelerator able to generate longitudinally and transversely bright electron bunches and to use these bunches in the experimental production of stable, synchronized, ultra short photon pulses of coherent light from a single pass FEL with techniques directly applicable to the future generation of light source facilities. In addition the facility will be an ideal test bed for demonstrating innovative technologies such as high repetition rate normal conducting RF linacs and advanced undulator designs. This paper will describe the design of CLARA, pointing out the flexible features that will be incorporated to allow multiple novel FEL schemes to be proven.  
 
TUPPP068 Comparison of Compression Schemes for CLARA 1756
 
  • P.H. Williams, J.W. McKenzie
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • J.K. Jones, P.H. Williams
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  CLARA (Compact Linear Advanced Research Accelerator) at Daresbury Laboratory is proposed to be the UK’s national FEL test facility. The accelerator will be a ~250 MeV electron linac capable of producing short, high brightness electron bunches. The machine comprises a 2.5 cell RF photocathode gun, one 2 m and three 5 m normal conducting S-band (2998MHz) accelerating structures and a variable magnetic compression chicane. CLARA will be used as a test bed for novel FEL configurations. We present a comparison of acceleration and compression schemes for the candidate machine layout.  
 
THPPC026 A Transverse Deflecting Cavity for the Measurement of Short Low Energy Bunches at EBTF 3335
 
  • G. Burt
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • S.R. Buckley, P. Goudket, C. Hill, P.A. McIntosh, J.W. McKenzie, A.E. Wheelhouse
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  The Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) at Daresbury Laboratory will deliver low energy (5/6 MeV) short bunches (~40 fs) to a number of industrial experimental stations and for scientific research. In order to measure the longitudinal profile of the bunch an S-band transverse deflecting cavity will be inserted into the beamline. A transverse kick of around 5 MV is required hence a 9 cell design has been chosen. The design of the transverse deflecting cavity has been influence by the competing demands of high RF efficiency and minimising the unwanted transverse kick at the entrance and exit of the cavity which cause the electrons to be displaced while traversing the cavity. This has led to a shortened end cell structure design to minimise the kick applied at the entrance and exit to the cavity. In order to minimise the impact of the input coupler a dummy waveguide has been placed on the opposing side of the cavity to minimise the monopole component of the RF fields in the coupling cell. The coupler is located at the central cell of the cavity to avoid exciting the nearby modes. Tracking of the beam is performed in GPT including space charge, due to the low energy of the electrons.  
 
THPPR044 A New Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) at Daresbury Laboratory for Industrial Accelerator System Development 4074
 
  • P.A. McIntosh, D. Angal-Kalinin, S.R. Buckley, J.A. Clarke, A.R. Goulden, C. Hill, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, T.T. Ng, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith, N. Thompson, A.E. Wheelhouse
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • N. Bliss, G.P. Diakun, A. Gleeson, T.J. Jones, B.G. Martlew, A.J. Moss, L. Nicholson, M.D. Roper, C.J. White
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  Recent UK government funding has facilitated the implementation of a unique accelerator test facility which can provide enabling infrastructures targeted for the development and testing of novel and compact accelerator technologies, specifically through partnership with industry and aimed at addressing applications for medicine, health, security, energy and industrial processing. The infrastructure provision on the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (DSIC) will permit research into areas of accelerator technologies which have the potential to revolutionise the cost, compactness and efficiency of such systems. The main element of the infrastructure will be a high performance and flexible electron beam injector facility, feeding customised state-of-the-art testing enclosures and associated support infrastructure. The facility operating parameters and implementation status will be described, along with primary areas of commercialised technology development opportunities.