Author: Mueller, A.-S.     [Müller, A.-S.]
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MOPEA012 Lifetime Studies at Metrology Light Source and ANKA 88
 
  • T. Goetsch, J. Feikes, M. Ries, G. Wüstefeld
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • A.-S. Müller
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
  The Metrology Light Source (MLS)*, situated in Berlin (Germany) is an electron storage ring operating from 105 MeV to 630 MeV and is serving as the national primary radiation source standard from the near infrared to the vacuum ultraviolet spectral region. In its standard user mode, the lifetime is dominated by the Touschek effect. Measurements and analysis of the Touschek lifetime as a function of beam current and RF-Voltage will be presented and compared to measurements done at the ANKA electron storage ring (Karlsruhe, Germany) which operates at 0.5 to 2.5 GeV**.
* R. Klein et al., Phys. Rev. ST-AB 11, 110701 (2008)
** A.-S. Müller et al., Energy Calibration Of The ANKA Storage Ring, In Proceedings of EPAC 2004
 
 
MOPEA019 Studies of Bunch-bunch Interactions in the ANKA Storage Ring with Coherent Synchrotron Radiation using an Ultra-fast Terahertz Detection System 109
 
  • A.-S. Müller, B.M. Balzer, C.M. Caselle, N. Hiller, M. Hofherr, K.S. Ilin, V. Judin, B. Kehrer, S. Marsching, S. Naknaimueang, M.J. Nasse, J. Raasch, A. Scheuring, M. Schuh, M. Schwarz, M. Siegel, N.J. Smale, J.L. Steinmann, P. Thoma, M. Weber, S. Wuensch
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
  Funding: Supported by Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract No. VH-NG-320 and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant. Noss. 05K10VKC and 05K2010VKD
In the low-alpha operation mode of the ANKA synchrotron light source, coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is emitted from short electron bunches. Depending on the bunch current, the radiation shows bursts of high intensity. These bursts of high intensity THz radiation display a time evolution which can be observed only on long time scales with respect to the revolution period. In addition, long range wake fields can introduce a correlation between the bunches within a bunch train and thus modify the observed behavior. A novel detection system consisting of an ultra-fast superconducting THz detector and data acquisition system was used to investigate correlations visible on the bursting pattern and to study the interactions of very short pulses in the ANKA storage ring.
 
 
MOPEA020 Comparison of Different Approaches to Determine the Bursting Threshold at ANKA 112
 
  • P. Schönfeldt, N. Hiller, V. Judin, A.-S. Müller, M. Schwarz, J.L. Steinmann
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
  The synchrotron light source ANKA at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology provides a dedicated low-α-optics. In this mode bursting of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) is observed for bunch charges above a threshold that depends on beam parameters. This threshold can be determined by several approaches, e.g. bunch lengthening or changes in the THz radiation spectra. This paper compares different methods and their implementation at the ANKA storage ring outlining their advantages, disadvantages and limitations, including reliability and possibility of real time analysis.  
 
MOPME014 Electro-optical Bunch Length Measurements at the ANKA Storage Ring 500
 
  • N. Hiller, A. Borysenko, E. Hertle, E. Huttel, V. Judin, B. Kehrer, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, M.J. Nasse, A. Plech, M. Schuh, S.N. Smale
    KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
  • P. Peier, V. Schlott
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • B. Steffen
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  Funding: Supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract number VH-NG-320 and by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under contract number 05K10VKC
A setup for near-field electro-optical bunch length measurements has recently been installed into the UHV system of the ANKA storage ring. For electro-optical bunch length measurements during ANKA's low alpha operation, a laser pulse is used to probe the field induced birefringence in an electro-optical crystal (GaP in our case). The setup allows for both electro-optical sampling (EOS, multi-shot) and spectral decoding (EOSD, single- and multi-shot) measurements. This paper presents first results and discusses challenges of this method employed for the first time at a storage ring.
 
 
MOPME015 Numerical Wakefield Calculations for Electro-optical Measurements 503
 
  • B. Kehrer, A. Borysenko, E. Hertle, N. Hiller, V. Judin, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, M.J. Nasse, M. Schuh
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
  Funding: This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the contract number 05K10VKC
The technique of electro-optical measurements allows precise and single-shot measurements of the bunch length and shape. The installation of such a near-field setup changes the impedance of the storage ring and the corresponding effects have to be studied carefully. One possibility is to use numerical codes for simulating the wakefields induced by the setup. Such simulations has been done using the wakefield solver implemented in the CST Studio Suite. In this paper we present the simulation results together with first measurements.
 
 
TUXB201 Short-pulse Operation of Storage Ring Light Sources 1129
 
  • A.-S. Müller
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
  Short-pulse operation of synchrotron light source storage rings can be useful for both the production of IR and THz-band radiation and high repetition rate pump-probe science in the X-ray regime. Different approaches to short-pulse generation include low-alpha optics configurations, two-frequency RF potential manipulation, laser-induced femtoslicing, longitudinal crab-cavity deflection and pseudo-bunch operation with a fast kicker to isolate a single bunch. This talk should review each of these techniques and discuss implications for machine operation in terms of pulse length, beam intensity, beam stability, pulse repetition rate, output radiation beam quality and potential applications.  
slides icon Slides TUXB201 [12.058 MB]  
 
TUPME031 Considerations for a Higgs Facility Based on Laser Wakefield Acceleration 1643
 
  • S. Hillenbrand, A.-S. Müller
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • R.W. Aßmann, S. Hillenbrand, D. Schulte
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Laser Wakefield Accelerators have seen tremendous progress over the last decades. It is hoped that they will allow to significantly reduce the size and cost of a future liner collider. Based on scaling laws, laser-driven plasma accelerators are investigated as drivers for smaller scale facilities capable of producing Z and Higgs bosons.  
 
WEOBB202 Ultra-fast Data Acquisition System for Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Based on Superconducting Terahertz Detectors 2094
 
  • C.M. Caselle, M. Hofherr, K.S. Ilin, V. Judin, A. Kopmann, A. Menshikov, A.-S. Müller, M. Siegel, N.J. Smale, P. Thoma, M. Weber, S. Wuensch
    KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
  • B.M. Balzer, S. Cilingaryan
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
 
  The ANKA synchrotron radiation source located at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany operates in the energy range between 0.5-2.5GeV and provides coherent synchrotron radiation. To resolve the ultra-short terahertz pulses emitted by a single bunch, thin YBCO superconducting film detectors have been developed. A response time of 45ps was determined as the FWHM at the output of the analog amplifier. A novel and high accuracy data acquisition architecture for sampling of the individual ultra-short terahertz pulses combined with real-time data processing based on GPUs for coherent synchrotron radiation is presented. The digitizer board is a made-in-house board designed for sampling of the fast pulse signals with pulse width between few tens of picosecond until 100ps. For each terahertz pulse five samples are acquired with a minimum sampling time of 3ps. A prototype setup with terahertz YBCO detectors, digitizer boards and the high-throughput FPGA framework has been successfully developed and tested at ANKA. The overview of the experimental setup including the YBCO detector technology and the preliminary results with single and multi-bunch filling pattern will be discussed.  
slides icon Slides WEOBB202 [2.416 MB]  
 
WEPWA008 Simulating the Bunch Structure in the THz Source FLUTE 2141
 
  • S. Naknaimueang, E. Huttel, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, M.J. Nasse, R. Rossmanith, M. Schreck, M. Schuh, M. Schwarz, M. Weber, P. Wesolowski
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • M.T. Schmelling
    MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany
 
  FLUTE is a planned THz source at KIT operating at a beam energy of 40 to 50 MeV in a wide bunch charge range. It consists of a laser driven rf-gun, a linac and a magnetic bunch compressor. The high current density combined with relatively low energy of FLUTE leads to complex strong self-field and beam-radiation field interactions, which are the limiting factors for the bunch compression efficiency. The results of numerical studies are presented in this paper.  
 
WEPWA009 RF Bunch Compression Studies for FLUTE 2144
 
  • M. Schuh, E. Huttel, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, S. Naknaimueang, M.J. Nasse, R. Rossmanith, R. Ruprecht, M. Schreck, M. Schwarz, M. Weber, P. Wesolowski
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • R.W. Aßmann, K. Flöttmann, H. Schlarb
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  FLUTE is a planned 40 to 50 MeV accelerator test facility consisting, in the first phase, of an electron gun with an output energy of about 7 MeV, a traveling wave linac and a magnet chicane bunch compressor. The machine will serve as a source of intense THz radiation using coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR), coherent transition radiation (CTR), and coherent edge radiation (CER) as generation mechanisms. It is planned to operate the machine in the charge regime from a few pC up to several nC in order to study bunch compression schemes as well as the THz radiation generation. In this contribution the effect of velocity bunching by using a dedicated buncher cavity at low energy and operating the linac off-crest is studied in order to deliver RMS bunch lengths in the femtosecond range at low charge.  
 
WEPWA010 FLUTE: A Versatile Linac-based THz Source Generating Ultra-short Pulses 2147
 
  • M.J. Nasse, E. Huttel, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, S. Naknaimueang, R. Rossmanith, R. Ruprecht, M. Schreck, M. Schuh, M. Schwarz, P. Wesolowski
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • R.W. Aßmann, M. Felber, K. Flöttmann, M. Hoffmann, H. Schlarb
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • H.-H. Braun, R. Ganter, L. Stingelin
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  FLUTE is a linac-based accelerator test facility and a THz source currently being constructed at KIT with an electron beam energy of ~41 MeV. It is designed to cover a large charge range from a few pC to ~3 nC. FLUTE is optimized to provide ultra-short electron bunches with an RMS length down to a few fs. In this contribution, we focus on the layout of the machine from the RF gun & gun laser over the linac and the compressor to the THz beamline for the generation of coherent synchrotron, transition and edge radiation (CSR, CTR, CER).  
poster icon Poster WEPWA010 [0.802 MB]  
 
WEPEA011 Bursting Patterns of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in the ANKA Storage Ring 2516
 
  • M. Schwarz, V. Judin, A.-S. Müller
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • M. Klein
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  We report measurements of bursting patterns of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) for a wide range of single bunch currents at the ANKA storage ring. The radiation was detected with a fast THz detector, a Hot Electron Bolometer, and its signal acquired with both a spectrum analyzer and an external sampling oscilloscope. Both analysis methods consistently show the onset of bursting at a threshold current with the appearance of strong high frequency bands with higher harmonics in the several 10th of kHz range. For currents higher than twice the threshold value an abrupt change in the bursting pattern occurs. These results are compared with different numerical models solving the one-dimensional Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation.  
 
WEPEA012 Study of Laser Wakefield Accelerators as Injectors for Synchrotron Light Sources 2519
 
  • S. Hillenbrand, V. Judin, A.-S. Müller
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • R.W. Aßmann, S. Hillenbrand
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • O. Jansen, A.M. Pukhov
    HHUD, Dusseldorf, Germany
 
  Short bunch lengths, high beam energies, and small facility footprint make Laser Wakefield Accelerators (LWFA) very interesting as injectors for Synchrotron Light Sources. In this paper, we describe exemplary investigations for the ANKA storage ring.