2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Kucera, M.J.)

Paper	Title	Page
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.

MOP285	Synchronization and Jitter Studies of a Titanium-sapphire Laser at the A0 Photoinjector	651
	T.J. Maxwell, P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA M.J. Kucera, J. Ruan Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Funding: Supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under U.S. Dept. of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, and Northern Illinois Univ. under US Dept. of Defense DURIP program Contract N00014-08-1-1064. A new titanium-sapphire laser has recently been installed at the A0 photoinjector for use in ongoing beam generation and ultra-fast beam diagnostics experiments. Where the system is used as the photoinjector drive laser, jitter and drift in the laser pulse time of arrival with respect to the low-level RF master oscillator and other beam components are known to degrade beam performance. These same fluctuations can also impact the temporal resolution of laser-based diagnostics. To resolve this, we present the results of some beam-based timing experiments as well as current progress on a synchronization feedback loop being adapted to the new laser system.

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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.

MOP285

Synchronization and Jitter Studies of a Titanium-sapphire Laser at the A0 Photoinjector

651

T.J. Maxwell, P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
M.J. Kucera, J. Ruan
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Funding: Supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under U.S. Dept. of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, and Northern Illinois Univ. under US Dept. of Defense DURIP program Contract N00014-08-1-1064.
A new titanium-sapphire laser has recently been installed at the A0 photoinjector for use in ongoing beam generation and ultra-fast beam diagnostics experiments. Where the system is used as the photoinjector drive laser, jitter and drift in the laser pulse time of arrival with respect to the low-level RF master oscillator and other beam components are known to degrade beam performance. These same fluctuations can also impact the temporal resolution of laser-based diagnostics. To resolve this, we present the results of some beam-based timing experiments as well as current progress on a synchronization feedback loop being adapted to the new laser system.