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| TUPEA059 | CLARA Accelerator Design and Simulations | 1268 |
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Funding: Science & Technology Facilities Council We present the accelerator design for CLARA (Compact Linear Advanced Research Accelerator) at Daresbury Laboratory. CLARA will be a testbed for novel FEL configurations. The accelerator will consist of an RF photoinjector, S-band acceleration and transport to 250 MeV including X-band linearisation and magnetic bunch compression. We describe the transport in detail including dedicated diagnostic sections. Beam dynamics simulations are then used to define a set of operating working points suitable for the different FEL schemes intended to be tested on CLARA. |
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| TUPEA060 | Jitter Tolerance for CLARA | 1271 |
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Funding: Science & Technology Facilities Council CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) at Daresbury Laboratory will be a test-bed for novel FEL configurations. CLARA will consist of an RF photoinjector, S-band acceleration and transport to 250 MeV including X-band linearisation and magnetic bunch compression. Ensuring stability of the VUV radiation pulses is a key aim of the project. To this end, we investigate in detail the jitter tolerance of the machine. This will ultimately determine the pulse stability. |
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| MOPFI065 | VELA (formerly EBTF) Simulations and First Beam Commissioning | 431 |
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| VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator), formerly known as EBTF (Electron Beam Test Facility), at STFC Daresbury Laboratory, is a photoinjector test facility which will provide beam into two user areas for scientific and industrial applications. It is based on a 2.5 cell S-band RF photoinjector driven by a Ti:Sapphire laser. The design is aimed to deliver short bunches at 10-250 pC charge with low transverse emittance. We present beam dynamics simulations of VELA as well as the results from first beam commissioning. | ||
| MOPFI068 | High Repetition Rate Highly Stable S-band Photocathode Gun for the CLARA Project | 437 |
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| Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) is a 250 MeV electron facility which is under development at STFC ASTeC. The CLARA photo-injector is based on a RF photocathode gun operating with metal photocathodes and driven by a third harmonic of Ti: Sapphire laser (266 nm). The injector will be operated with laser pulses with an energy of up to 2 mJ, pulse durations down to 180 fs FWHM and a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz. In order to investigate performance of different photocathodes the gun is equipped with a load-lock system which would allow replacement of the photocathodes. Duration and emittance of electron bunches essentially depends on the mode of operation and vary from 0.1 ps at 20 pC to 5 ps at 200 pC and from 0.2 to 2 mm mrad respectively. Requirements for the stability of beam arrival time at the CLARA experimental area are extremely high and vary from hundreds down to tenths femtoseconds. In the presented article we analyse stability of the guns with 1.5 and 2.5 cell and the beam quality delivered by a gun with coaxial and waveguide coupler and analyse possibility of injection time stabilisation with low level RF and optical feedback system. | ||
| TUPEA058 | The Conceptual Design of CLARA, A Novel FEL Test Facility for Ultrashort Pulse Generation | 1265 |
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| The conceptual design of CLARA, a novel FEL test facility focussed on the generation of ultrashort photon pulses with extreme levels of stability and synchronisation is described. The ultimate aim of CLARA is to experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, that sub-coherence length pulse generation with FELs is viable. The results will translate directly to existing and future X-Ray FELs, enabling them to generate attosecond pulses, thereby extending the science capabilities of these intense light sources. 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. | ||
| TUPEA060 | Jitter Tolerance for CLARA | 1271 |
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Funding: Science & Technology Facilities Council CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) at Daresbury Laboratory will be a test-bed for novel FEL configurations. CLARA will consist of an RF photoinjector, S-band acceleration and transport to 250 MeV including X-band linearisation and magnetic bunch compression. Ensuring stability of the VUV radiation pulses is a key aim of the project. To this end, we investigate in detail the jitter tolerance of the machine. This will ultimately determine the pulse stability. |
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| WEPWA064 | Simulations of the ALICE ERL | 2265 |
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| ALICE is a low-energy Energy Recovery Linac operated at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, UK. The ALICE injector is based around a 350 kV DC photo-cathode electron gun. With an operating voltage of 325 keV, electron dynamics in the ALICE injector are space-charge dominated and highly non-linear, and this complicates simulations of the beam dynamics in this region. With an intermediate energy of 6.5 MeV, and a final ring energy of 27.5 MeV, the space-charge effects in the rest of the machine can also not be ignored. In this paper we summarise some of the work that has been performed to understand and optimise the simulations of the ALICE ERL, in several different operating modes, and using several different modelling codes. | ||
| WEPFI065 | The Commissioning of the EBTF S-band Photoinjector Gun at Daresbury Laboratory | 2845 |
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| The first stage of the installation of the Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) at Daresbury Laboratory has been completed and a commissioning phase is presently underway. At the heart of the machine is a photoinjector based on a two and a half cell S-band RF gun incorporating a metallic photocathode, which is capable of delivering 4-6 MeV, low emittance, short electron pulses (10 - 250 pC). The photoinjector is driven by a UV light at 266 nm wavelength delivered by a laser system and is powered by a RF system incorporating a Low Level RF system, a high power RF modulator and a klystron. This paper describes the commissioning and conditioning of the photoinjector. | ||
| THPWA036 | Implementation and Commissioning of the New Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) at Daresbury Laboratory for Industrial Accelerator System | 3708 |
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| The EBTF facility will provide enabling infrastructures targeted at the development and testing of novel and compact accelerator technologies, specifically through partnership with industry and aimed at addressing applications in medicine, health, security, energy and industrial processing. The facility has now been implemented at Daresbury Laboratory and the commissioning of the critical accelerator systems has been performed. The facility is now preparing for first exploitation with partnering industries that will be able to utilise the electron beam parameters available on EBTF to either demonstrate new techniques and/or processes or otherwise develop new technologies for future commercial realisation. | ||