CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
Cornell is currently developing a high current Energy Recovery Linac. The baseline 7-cell cavity design for the main linac has already been completed, and prototyping has begun, as of Fall 2010. Previous work showed that increasing the relative cavity-to-cavity frequency spread increases the beam break-up current through the linac. Simulations show that expected machining variations will introduce a relative HOM frequency spread of 0.5·10-3, corresponding to 150 mA of threshold current. The key idea of this work is to increase the relative cavity-to-cavity frequency spread by designing several classes of 7-cell cavities obtained by making small changes to the baseline center cell shape. This allows a threshold current in excess of 450 mA, which is well above the 100 mA goal for the Cornell Energy Recovery Linac.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) are proposed as drivers for hard X-ray sources because of their ability to produce electron bunches with small, flexible cross sections and short lengths at high repetition rates. The advantages of ERL lightsources will be explained, and the status of plans for such facilities will be described. In particular, Cornell University plans to build an ERL light source, and the preparatory research for its construction will be discussed. This will include the prototype injector for high current CW ultra-low emittance beams, superconducting CW technology, the transport of low emittance beams, halo formation from intrabeam scattering, the mitigation of ion effects, the suppression of instabilities, and front to end simulations. Several of these topics could become important for other modern light source projects, such as SASE FELs, HGHG FELs, and XFELOs.