Author: Spentzouris, L.K.
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MOPFI076 Electron Emission Studies in the New High-charge Cs2Te Photoinjector at Argonne National Laboratory 455
 
  • E.E. Wisniewski, M.E. Conde, W. Gai, C.-J. Jing, W. Liu, J.G. Power
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • L.K. Spentzouris, Z.M. Yusof
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: This work was funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Science under contract number DE-AC02-06CH11357.
A new L-band 1.3 GHz 1.5 cell gun for the new 75 MeV drive beam is being commissioned and will soon be operating at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility as part of the facility upgrade (see M. E. Conde, this proceedings.) The photoinjector is high-field (peak accelerating field > 80MV/m) and has a large \mathrm{Cs}2\mathrm{Te} photocathode (diameter > 30 mm) fabricated in-house. The photoinjector generates high-charge, short pulse, single bunches (Q > 100 nC) or bunch-trains (Q ≈ 1000 nC) for wakefield experiments. Field emission from the \mathrm{Cs}2\mathrm{Te} cathode is to be measured during RF conditioning and benchmarked against measurements from a copper cathode. Quantum efficiency (QE) will be measured in single and multi-bunch modes. Preliminary results are presented.