IPAC2013 - List of Authors (Wheelhouse, A.E.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPFI068	High Repetition Rate Highly Stable S-band Photocathode Gun for the CLARA Project	437
	B.L. Militsyn, L.S. Cowie, P. Goudket, S.P. Jamison, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, R. Valizadeh, A.E. Wheelhouse STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom V.V. Paramonov RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia M.D. Roper STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	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
	J.A. Clarke, D. Angal-Kalinin, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, P.A. Corlett, L.S. Cowie, D.J. Dunning, B.D. Fell, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, B.P.M. Liggins, L. Ma, K.B. Marinov, P.A. McIntosh, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, H.L. Owen, R.N.C. Santer, Y.M. Saveliev, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith, E.W. Snedden, M. Surman, T.T. Thakker, N. Thompson, R. Valizadeh, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom R. Appleby, M. Serluca, G.X. Xia UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom R.J. Barlow, A.M. Kolano University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom R. Bartolini, I.P.S. Martin Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom N. Bliss, R.J. Cash, G. Cox, G.P. Diakun, A. Gallagher, D.M.P. Holland, B.G. Martlew, M.D. Roper STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom S.T. Boogert Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom G. Burt Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom L.T. Campbell, B.W.J. MᶜNeil USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom S. Chattopadhyay Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom A. Lyapin JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom D. Newton, A. Wolski The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom V.V. Paramonov RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
	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.

WEPFI064	Prototype Refinement of the VELA Transverse Deflecting Cavity Design	2842
	P. Goudket, S.R. Buckley, L.S. Cowie, A.E. Wheelhouse STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom G. Burt Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
	The Versatile Linear Accelerator (VELA) at Daresbury Laboratory will deliver low energy (5/6 MeV) short bunches (~40 fs) to a number of industrial experimental stations and for scientific research. In order to measure the longitudinal profile of the bunch an S-band transverse deflecting cavity will be inserted into the beamline. A transverse kick of around 5 MV is required therefore a 9 cell design has been chosen. As part of the design iteration a three-cell prototype has been built. Frequency measurements have been performed on the prototype cavity as well as Coordinate Measuring Machine to confirm that the dimensions are to the required design tolerances. Subsequently, further modelling has been performed to improve and refine the design of the 9-cell cavity, to ensure that the frequency of the final design is within the tuning range of the water thermal control system and that the field flatness requirement can be obtained.

WEPFI065	The Commissioning of the EBTF S-band Photoinjector Gun at Daresbury Laboratory	2845
	A.E. Wheelhouse, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, P.A. Corlett, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	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
	P.A. McIntosh, D. Angal-Kalinin, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, J.A. Clarke, B.D. Fell, A.R. Goulden, C. Hill, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, B.P.M. Liggins, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, T.C.Q. Noakes, Y.M. Saveliev, B.J.A. Shepherd, S.L. Smith, T.T. Thakker, A.E. Wheelhouse STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom N. Bliss, G. Cox, G.P. Diakun, A. Gleeson, L. Ma, B.G. Martlew, A.J. Moss, K. Robertson, M.D. Roper, R.J. Smith STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	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.

Paper

Title

Page

High Repetition Rate Highly Stable S-band Photocathode Gun for the CLARA Project

437

B.L. Militsyn, L.S. Cowie, P. Goudket, S.P. Jamison, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, R. Valizadeh, A.E. Wheelhouse
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
V.V. Paramonov
RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
M.D. Roper
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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

J.A. Clarke, D. Angal-Kalinin, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, P.A. Corlett, L.S. Cowie, D.J. Dunning, B.D. Fell, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, B.P.M. Liggins, L. Ma, K.B. Marinov, P.A. McIntosh, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, H.L. Owen, R.N.C. Santer, Y.M. Saveliev, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith, E.W. Snedden, M. Surman, T.T. Thakker, N. Thompson, R. Valizadeh, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
R. Appleby, M. Serluca, G.X. Xia
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
R.J. Barlow, A.M. Kolano
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
R. Bartolini, I.P.S. Martin
Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
N. Bliss, R.J. Cash, G. Cox, G.P. Diakun, A. Gallagher, D.M.P. Holland, B.G. Martlew, M.D. Roper
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
S.T. Boogert
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
G. Burt
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
L.T. Campbell, B.W.J. MᶜNeil
USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
S. Chattopadhyay
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
A. Lyapin
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
D. Newton, A. Wolski
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
V.V. Paramonov
RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia

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.

WEPFI064

Prototype Refinement of the VELA Transverse Deflecting Cavity Design

2842

P. Goudket, S.R. Buckley, L.S. Cowie, A.E. Wheelhouse
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
G. Burt
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

The Versatile Linear Accelerator (VELA) at Daresbury Laboratory will deliver low energy (5/6 MeV) short bunches (~40 fs) to a number of industrial experimental stations and for scientific research. In order to measure the longitudinal profile of the bunch an S-band transverse deflecting cavity will be inserted into the beamline. A transverse kick of around 5 MV is required therefore a 9 cell design has been chosen. As part of the design iteration a three-cell prototype has been built. Frequency measurements have been performed on the prototype cavity as well as Coordinate Measuring Machine to confirm that the dimensions are to the required design tolerances. Subsequently, further modelling has been performed to improve and refine the design of the 9-cell cavity, to ensure that the frequency of the final design is within the tuning range of the water thermal control system and that the field flatness requirement can be obtained.

WEPFI065

The Commissioning of the EBTF S-band Photoinjector Gun at Daresbury Laboratory

2845

A.E. Wheelhouse, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, P.A. Corlett, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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

P.A. McIntosh, D. Angal-Kalinin, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, J.A. Clarke, B.D. Fell, A.R. Goulden, C. Hill, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, B.P.M. Liggins, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, T.C.Q. Noakes, Y.M. Saveliev, B.J.A. Shepherd, S.L. Smith, T.T. Thakker, A.E. Wheelhouse
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
N. Bliss, G. Cox, G.P. Diakun, A. Gleeson, L. Ma, B.G. Martlew, A.J. Moss, K. Robertson, M.D. Roper, R.J. Smith
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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.