BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
An internal R&D program has been undertaken at BNL to develop a sub-micron RF Beam Position Monitor (BPM) for the NSLS-II 3rd generation light source that is currently under construction. The BPM R&D program started in August 2009. Successful beam tests were conducted 15 months from the start of the program. The NSLS-II RF BPM has been designed to meet all requirements for the NSLS-II Injection system and Storage Ring. Housing of the RF BPMs in ±0.1C thermally controlled racks provide sub-micron stabilization without active correction. An active pilot-tone has been incorporated to aid long-term (8hr min) stabilization to 200nm RMS.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
A high-repetition rate (MHz-class), high-brightness electron beam photo-gun is under construction at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the framework of the Advanced Photo-injector EXperiment (APEX). The injector gun is based on a normal conducting 187 MHz RF cavity operating in CW mode. In its first operational phase it will deliver short bunches (~ 1 to tens of picoseconds) with energy of 750keV, and bunch charges ranging from 1pC to 1nC. Different high efficiency cathode materials will be tested, and the beam quality will be studied as a function of parameters as charge, initial bunch length and transverse size, focusing strength. Both the laser and electron beam diagnostics have been designed to assure the needed flexibility. In particular a high-resolution electron diagnostic section after the photo-gun provides the necessary dynamical range for scanned beam parameters: energy and energy spread, charge and current, transverse and longitudinal phase spaces, slice properties. The photo-gun electron beam diagnostic layout is presented, and the hardware choices, resolution and achievable dynamical ranges are also discussed.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley Lab is one of the earliest 3rd generation light sources. Over the years substantial upgrades have been implemented to keep the facility at the forefront of soft x-ray sources. The most recent one is a multi-year upgrade, that includes new and replacement x-ray beamlines, a replacement of many of the original insertion devices and many upgrades to the accelerator. The accelerator upgrade that affects the ALS performance most directly is the ALS brightness upgrade, which will reduce the horizontal emittance from 6.3 to 2.2 nm. This will result in a brightness increase by a factor of three for bend magnet beamlines and at least a factor of two for insertion device beamlines and will keep the ALS competitive with newer sources.
