LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
In this paper, we propose using masked photocathode in photoinjector for generating high brightness electron beam. An electrode with small hole is used as a mask to shield a large size photocathode from accelerating vacuum chamber. Using a mask will significantly increase lifetime of a photocathode by rotating unexplored photocathode material behind the electrode into the hole. Furthermore, the mask helps reduce dark current or secondary electron emission from the photocathode material. It also provides a control of initial beam transverse emittances.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
In next generation high repetition rate FELs, beam energy loss due to resistive wall wakefields will produce significant amount of heat. The heat load for a superconducting undulator (operating at low temperature), must be removed and will be expensive to remove. In this paper, we study this effect in an undulator proposed for a Next Generation Light Source (NGLS) at LBNL. We benchmark our calculations with measurements at the LCLS and carry out detailed parameter studies using beam from a start-to-end simulation. Our preliminary results suggest that the heat load in the undulator is about 2 W/m with an aperture size of 6 mm for nominal NGLS design parameters.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Start-to-end simulation plays an important role in designing next generation light sources. In this paper, we present recent progress in further development and application of the parallel beam dynamics code, IMPACT, towards the fully start-to-end, multi-physics simulation of a next generation X-ray FEL light source. We will discuss numerical methods and physical models used in the simulation. We will also present some preliminary simulation results of a beam transporting through photoinjector, beam delivery system, and FEL beamlines.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Beam-beam effects impose restrictions on beam and beam optical parameters as they may degrade the luminosity and the emittance or cause coherent instabilities and particle loss. In the planned High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), beam-beam effects will significantly affect the beams because of unprecedented beam parameters and new features like crab cavities or elliptical beam cross sections at the interaction points. Noise from various sources can further worsen the situation. Therefore investigations are required to identify limitations of possible HL-LHC layouts. The impact of beam-beam effects on the beam dynamics is investigated by virtue of particle tracking simulations. Using the code BeamBeam3D and the strong-strong collision model, simulations including perturbations by noise and LHC's feedback system, an important means to mitigate transverse emittance growth due to coherent beam excitation, were carried out. The impact of numerical noise on the emittance in simulations and the state of the feedback modeling are presented.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Synchrotron radiation is one of the most important and difficult to model phenomena affecting lepton accelerators. Large-scale parallel modeling provides a means to explore properties of synchrotron radiation that would be impossible to study through analytical methods alone. We have performed first-principles simulations of synchrotron radiation, using a Lienard-Wiechert approach, with the same number of simulation particles as would be found in bunches with charge up to 1 nC. The results shed light on the importance of shot noise effects, the amplification of coherent synchrotron radiation due to longitudinal microbunching, the interplay of electric and magnetic forces, and the limits of the widely used one-dimensional model.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
UCB, Berkeley, California, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
* F. Sannibale et al., this conference.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
There is great interest in generating a terawatt (TW) hard X-ray free electron laser (FEL) that will enable coherent diffraction imaging of complex molecules like proteins and probe fundamental high-field physics. A feasibility study of producing such pulses was carried out em- ploying a configuration beginning with an SASE amplifier, followed by a "self-seeding" crystal monochromator, and finishing with a long tapered undulator. The undulator tapering profile, the phase advance in the undulator break sections, the quadrupole focusing strength, etc. are parameters to be optimized. A genetic algorithm (GA) is adopted for this multi-dimensional optimization. Concrete examples are given for LCLS/LCLS-II systems.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Before the Tevatron collider Run II ended in September of 2011, a two-week period was devoted to the experiments on various aspects of beam-beam interactions. The studied topics included offset collisions, coherent beam stability, effect of the bunch-length-to-beta-function ratio, and operation of AC dipole with colliding beams. In this report we summarize the results of beam experiments and supporting simulations.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
The Montague resonance provides a coupling between the vertical and the horizontal dynamics of beams and can cause particle losses due to unequal aperture sizes of the accelerator. In this paper, we present a new numerical simulation study of a previous Montague resonance crossing experiment at the CERN PS including detailed three-dimensional space-charge effects and machine nonlinearity. The simulation reproduces the experimental data and suggests that the longitudinal synchrotron motion played an important role in enhancing transverse resonance coupling.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
We report on the beam dynamics studies and optimization methods for a high-repetition (1 MHz) photoinjector based on a VHF normal conducting electron source. The simultaneous goals of beam compression and preservation of 6-dimensional beam brightness have to be achieved in the injector, in order to accommodate a linac driven FEL light source. For this, a parallel, multiobjective optimization algorithm is used. We discuss the relative merits of different injector design points, as well as the constraints imposed on the beam dynamics by technical considerations such as the high repetition rate.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
LBNL is developing design concepts for a multi-beamline soft x-ray FEL array powered by a superconducting linear accelerator, operating with a high bunch repetition rate of approximately one MHz. The cw superconducting linear accelerator is supplied by an injector based on a high-brightness, high-repetition-rate photocathode electron gun. Electron bunches are distributed from the linac to the array of independently configurable FEL beamlines with nominal bunch rates up to 100 kHz in each FEL, and with even pulse spacing. Individual FELs may be configured for different modes of operation, and each may produce high peak and average brightness x-rays with a flexible pulse format, and with pulse durations ranging from sub-femtoseconds to hundreds of femtoseconds. In this paper we describe conceptual design studies and optimizations. We describe recent developments in the design and performance parameters, and progress in R&D activities.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
NPS, Monterey, California, USA
The Advanced Photo-injector Experiment (APEX) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is focused on the development of a high-brightness high-repetition rate (MHz-class) electron injector for X-ray FEL applications. The injector is based on a new concept gun, utilizing a normal conducting 186 MHz RF cavity operating in cw mode in conjunction with high quantum efficiency photocathodes capable of delivering the required repetition rates with available laser technology. The APEX activities are staged in 3 main phases. In Phases 0 and I, the gun will be tested at its nominal energy of 750 keV and several different photocathodes are tested at full repetition rate. In Phase II, a pulsed linac will be added for accelerating the beam at several tens of MeV to reduce space charge effects and measure the high-brightness performance of the gun when integrated in an injector scheme. At Phase II energies, the radiation shielding configuration of APEX limits the repetition rate to a maximum of several Hz. Phase 0 is under commissioning, Phase I under installation, and initial activities for Phase II are underway. This paper presents an update on the status of these activities.