Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA), presently under construction at Fermilab, will produce high-charge (~<3 nC) electron bunches with energies ranging from 50 to eventually 750 MeV. The facility is based on a superconducting linac capable of producing up to 3000 bunches in 1-ms macropulses repeated at 5 Hz. In this paper we explore the use of a short dielectric-lined-waveguide (DLW) linac to significantly increase the bunch energy. The method consists in (1) using advanced phase space manipulation techniques to shape the beam distribution and enhance the transformer ratio, and (2) optimize the generation and acceleration of a low-charge witness bunches. Start-to-end simulations of the proposed concept are presented. This DLW module could also be used to test some aspects of a recently proposed concept for a multiuser short-wavelength free-electron laser utilizing a series of DLW linacs*.
* C. Jing et al., “A Compact Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility based on a Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator”, Advanced Photon Source LS Note LS-332, Argonne National Laboratory (2012).
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
The generation of flat beam using round-to-flat beam conversion of an incoming canonical-angular-momentum dominated electron beam could have important application in the field of advanced acceleration techniques and accelerator-based light source. In this paper we explore the temporal compression of flat beams and especially compare the resulting phase space dilutions with the case of round beam. Finally, we propose and detail a possible experiment to investigate the flat-beam bunch compression at the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator currently in construction at Fermilab.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Earlier experiments at Fermilab’s A0 Photoinjector Laboratory demonstrated successful transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange (EEX) using a transverse-deflecting cavity (TDC) located between two identical doglegs. Such a design has the disadvantage of transversely displacing the beam. An interesting alternative is an EEX beamline designed out of a variable R56 bunch compressor chicane. In this paper, we present design and simulation testing for a chicane-based EEX for eventual implementation at Fermilab’s Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator. We explore several advanced EEX concepts, including bunch current profile shaping, bunch compression, and dispersion-boosting to relax the requirements on TDC power and cooling.
