LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Using correlations at the cathode to tailor the beam’s eigen-emittances is a recent concept made useful by the symplectic nature of Hamiltonian systems. While introducing correlations does not change the overall 6-dimensional phase space volume, it can change the partitioning of this volume into the longitudinal and two transverse emittances, which become the eigen-emittances if the initial correlations are removed. In principle, this technique can be used to generate beams with highly asymmetric emittances, such as those needed for the next generation of very hard X-ray free-electron lasers. Based on linear correlations, the applicability of this approach is limited by the magnitude of nonlinear effects in photoinjectors. We review the eigen-emittance concept and present a linear eigen-emittance design leading to a highly partitioned, and transversely ultra-bright, electron beam. We also present numerical tools to examine the evolution of the eigen-emittances in realistic accelerator structures and results indicating how much partitioning is practical.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
The proposed Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes (MaRIE) facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will include a 50-keV X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL), a significant extension from planned and existing XFEL facilities. To prevent an unacceptably large energy spread arising from energy diffusion, the electron beam energy should not exceed 20 GeV, which puts a significant constraint on the beam emittance. To achieve a sufficiently high gradient of 50 MV/m, an rf frequency of 11.424 GHz is considered. A 100-pC baseline design is presented along with advanced technology options to increase the photon flux and to generate longitudinal coherency through single-bunch optical seeding, pre-bunching the electron beam, and combinations of these techniques.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Beam-beam effects limit luminosity in high energy colliders. Parallel beam-beam simulation codes were developed to study those beam-beam effects and to help the collider design. In this paper, we will present a parallel optimization algorithm integrating together with the parallel beam-beam simulation to optimize the luminosity of the colliding beams. This algorithm is based on a differential evolutionary global optimization method and takes advantage of the two-level parallelization in both parallel search and parallel objective function evaluation. This significantly increases the scalability of the simulation on peta-scale supercomputers and reduces the time for finding the optimal working point.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
We report on on-going studies of a superconducting CW linac driver intended to support a high repetition rate FEL operating in the soft x-rays spectrum. We present a point-design for a 1.8 GeV machine tuned for 300~pC bunches and delivering low-emittance, low-energy spread beams as needed for the SASE and seeded beamlines.