Author: Church, M.D.
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MOP009 Status and Plans for a SRF Accelerator Test Facility at Fermilab 118
 
  • J.R. Leibfritz, R. Andrews, K. Carlson, B. Chase, M.D. Church, E.R. Harms, A.L. Klebaner, M.J. Kucera, S.L. Lackey, A. Martinez, S. Nagaitsev, L.E. Nobrega, J. Reid, M. Wendt, S.J. Wesseln
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy
A superconducting RF accelerator test facility is being constructed at Fermilab. The existing New Muon Lab (NML) building is being converted for this facility. The accelerator will consist of an electron gun, injector, beam acceleration section consisting of 3 TTF-type or ILC-type cryomodules, multiple downstream beamlines for testing diagnostics and conducting various beam tests, and a high power beam dump. When completed, it is envisioned that this facility will initially be capable of generating a 810 MeV electron beam with ILC beam intensity. Expansion plans of the facility are underway that will provide the capability to upgrade the accelerator to a total beam energy of 1.5 GeV. In addition to testing accelerator components, this facility will be used to test RF power equipment, instrumentation, LLRF and controls systems for future SRF accelerators such as the ILC and Project-X. This paper describes the current status and overall plans for this facility.
 
 
MOP121 Experimental Studies on Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in the Emittance Exchange Line at the Fermilab A0 Photoinjector 322
 
  • J.C.T. Thangaraj, M.D. Church, H.T. Edwards, A.S. Johnson, A.H. Lumpkin, P. Piot, J. Ruan, J.K. Santucci, Y.-E. Sun, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Future accelerators will employ advanced beam conditioning systems such as emittance exchangers to manipulate high brightness beams. Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in the dipoles could limit the performance of the emittance exchanger. In this paper, we report the experimental and simulation studies on measuring coherent synchrotron radiation and its effects on the beam at the A0 photoinjector in the emittance exchange line. We show how CSR can be used to measure bunch length of the beam. We also report on the diagnostic scheme based on a weak skew quad in the emittance exchange line to study the CSR effects on the beam and other beam dynamics.  
 
MOP219 Initial Beam-Profiling Tests with the NML Prototype Station at the Fermilab A0 Photoinjector 510
 
  • A.H. Lumpkin, M.D. Church, R.H. Flora, A.S. Johnson, J. Ruan, J.K. Santucci, V.E. Scarpine, Y.-E. Sun, R.M. Thurman-Keup, M. Wendt
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
Beam-profile diagnostics are being developed for a superconducting (SC) radiofrequency (RF) Test Accelerator that is currently under construction at the New Muon Lab (NML) at Fermilab. The facility’s design goals include the replication of the pulse train proscribed for the International Linear Collider (ILC). An RF photoelectric gun based on the DESY design will generate the beam. In test-beam mode a low-power beam will be characterized with intercepting radiation converter screens: either a 100-micron thick YAG:Ce single crystal scintillator or a 1-micron thin Al optical transition radiation (OTR) foil. This prototype station was constructed by RadiaBeam Technologies under a contract with Fermilab. In both cases the screen surface was normal to the beam direction followed by a downstream 45-degree mirror that directed the radiation into the optical system. The optical system has better than 20 (10) micron rms spatial resolution when covering a vertical field of view of 18(5) mm. These initial tests were performed at the A0 Photoinjector at a beam energy of ~15 MeV and with micropulse charges from 25 to 500 pC for beam sizes of 45 to 250 microns. Example results will be presented.

 
 
WEP036 Start-to-End Beam Dynamics Simulations for the SRF Accelerator Test Facility at Fermilab 1561
 
  • C.R. Prokop, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • M.D. Church, Y.-E. Sun
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: LANL Laboratory Directed Research and Development program 20110067DR. U.S. DoE contract No. DE-FG02-08ER41532 Northern Illinois University. Fermi Research Alliance, LLC Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359.
Fermilab is currently building a superconducting RF (SCRF) linear-accelerator test facility. In addition to testing ILC-spec SCRF accelerating modules for ILC and Project-X, the facility will be capable of supporting a variety of advanced accelerator R&D experiments. The accelerator facility includes a 40-MeV photoinjector capable of producing bunches with variable parameters. In this paper, we present start-to-end simulations of the accelerator beamline.