Author: Will, I.
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TUPPD051 Operational Experience with the Nb/Pb SRF Photoelectron Gun 1518
 
  • T. Kamps, W. Anders, R. Barday, A. Jankowiak, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A.N. Matveenko, A. Neumann, T. Quast, J. Rudolph, S.G. Schubert, J. Völker
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • P. Kneisel
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • R. Nietubyć
    The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Świerk, Świerk/Otwock, Poland
  • J.K. Sekutowicz
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • J. Smedley
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • J. Teichert
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • V. Volkov
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • I. Will
    MBI, Berlin, Germany
 
  SRF photoelectron guns offer the promise of high brightness, high average current beam production for the next generation of accelerator driven light sources such as free electron lasers, THz radiation sources or energy-recovery linac driven synchrotron radiation sources. In a first step a fully superconducting RF (SRF) photoelectron gun is under development by a collaboration between HZB, DESY, JLAB, BNL and NCBJ. The aim of the experiment is to understand and improve the performance of a Nb SRF gun cavity coated with a small metallic Pb cathode film on the cavity backplane. This paper describes the highlights from the commissioning and beam parameter measurements. The main focus is on lessons learned from operation of the SRF gun.