Author: Steier, C.
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TUPPP037 Status of the ALS Brightness Upgrade 1692
 
  • C. Steier, B.J. Bailey, A. Biocca, A.T. Black, D. Colomb, N. Li, A. Madur, S. Marks, H. Nishimura, G.C. Pappas, S. Prestemon, D. Robin, S.L. Rossi, T. Scarvie, D. Schlueter, C. Sun, W. Wan
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley Lab while one of the earliest 3rd generation light sources remains one of the brightest sources for sof x-rays. Another multiyear upgrade of the ALS is currently under way, which includes new and replacement x-ray beamlines, a replacement of many of the original insertion devices and many upgrades to the accelerator. The accelerator upgrade that affects the ALS performance most directly is the ALS brightness upgrade, which will reduce the horizontal emittance from 6.3 to 2.2 nm (2.6 nm effective). This will result in a brightness increase by a factor of three for bendmagnet beamlines and at least a factor of two for insertion device beamlines. Magnets for this upgrade are currently under production and will be installed later this year.
 
 
TUPPP038 Electron Beam Collimation for the Next Generation Light Source 1695
 
  • C. Steier, P. Emma, H. Nishimura, C. F. Papadopoulos, F. Sannibale
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The Next Generation Light Source will deliver high (MHz) repetition rate electron beams to an array of free electron lasers. Because of the significant average current in such a facility, effective beam collimation is extremely important to minimize radiation damage to undulators, prevent quenches of superconducting cavities, limit dose rates outside of the accelerator tunnel and prevent equipment damage. This paper describes the conceptual design of the collimator system, as well as the results of simulations to test its effectiveness.
 
 
TUPPP039 Vertical Dispersion Bump Design for Femto-second Slicing Beamline at the ALS 1698
 
  • C. Sun, C. Steier, W. Wan
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Femto-second (fs) slicing beamline has been brought to the operation at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) since 2002. It employs the resonant interaction of an electron bunch with a fs laser beam in a wiggler to energy-modulate a short section of the bunch. The induced energy modulation is then converted to a transverse displacement using a vertical dispersion bump downstream of the wiggler. Thus, the radiation from the fs pulse can be separated from the main bunch radiation. The current dispersion bump design has proved to be an effective and reliable one. However, the ALS storage ring lattice is under an upgrade to improve its brightness. After the completion of the upgrade, a new low emittance will be implemented, and the current dispersion bump design needs to be modified to provide the adequate vertical displacement, while minimizing the vertical emittance and spurious dispersion. In this paper, we present the new design of a vertical dispersion bump using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm (MOGA) for the ALS upgrade lattice.
 
 
TUPPP074 Beam Dynamics Studies of a High-repetition Rate Linac Driver for a 4th-generation Light Source 1771
 
  • M. Venturini, J.N. Corlett, P. Emma, C. F. Papadopoulos, G. Penn, M. Placidi, J. Qiang, M.W. Reinsch, F. Sannibale, C. Steier, R.P. Wells
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  We present progress toward the design of a super-conducting linac driver of a high repetition rate FEL-based soft x-ray light source. The machine is intended to accept beams generated by the APEX* photocathode gun, operating in the MHz range, and deliver them to an array of SASE and seeded FEL beamlines. After reviewing the beam-dynamics considerations that are informing specific lattice choices we discuss the expected performance of the proposed machine design and its ability to meet the desired FEL specifications. We consider the merit of possible alternate designs (e.g., a one-stage compressor vs. a two-stage compressor) and the trade-offs between competing demands on the beam attributes (e.g., high peak current vs. acceptable energy spread).
* F. Sannibale et al., this conference.
 
 
WEPPR031 Injector Beam Dynamics for a High-repetition Rate 4th-generation Light Source 3000
 
  • C. F. Papadopoulos, J.N. Corlett, P. Emma, D. Filippetto, G. Penn, J. Qiang, M.W. Reinsch, F. Sannibale, C. Steier, M. Venturini, R.P. Wells
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the Director of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract no. DEAC02-05CH11231.
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.
 
 
TUPPP070 Next Generation Light Source R&D and Design Studies at LBNL 1762
 
  • J.N. Corlett, B. Austin, K.M. Baptiste, D.L. Bowring, J.M. Byrd, S. De Santis, P. Denes, R.J. Donahue, L.R. Doolittle, P. Emma, D. Filippetto, G. Huang, T. Koettig, S. Kwiatkowski, D. Li, T.P. Lou, H. Nishimura, H.A. Padmore, C. F. Papadopoulos, G.C. Pappas, G. Penn, M. Placidi, S. Prestemon, D. Prosnitz, J. Qiang, A. Ratti, M.W. Reinsch, D. Robin, F. Sannibale, D. Schlueter, R.W. Schoenlein, J.W. Staples, C. Steier, C. Sun, T. Vecchione, M. Venturini, W. Wan, R.P. Wells, R.B. Wilcox, J.S. Wurtele
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the Director, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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.