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| MOPCH028 | Status of the SPARX FEL Project | 107 |
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| The SPARX project consists in an X-ray-FEL facility jointly supported by MIUR (Research Department of Italian Government), Regione Lazio, CNR, ENEA, INFN and Rome University Tor Vergata. It is the natural extension of the ongoing activities of the SPARC collaboration. The aim is the generation of electron beams characterized by ultra-high peak brightness at the energy of 1 and 2 GeV, for the first and the second phase respectively. The beam is expected to drive a single pass FEL experiment in the range of 13.5-6 nm and 6-1.5 nm, at 1 GeV and 2 GeV respectively, both in SASE and SEEDED FEL configurations. A hybrid scheme of RF and magnetic compression will be adopted, based on the expertise achieved at the SPARC high brightness photoinjector presently under commissioning at Frascati INFN-LNF Laboratories. The use of superconducting and exotic undulator sections will be also exploited. In this paper we report the progress of the collaboration together with start to end simulation results based on a combined scheme of RF compression techniques. | ||
| MOPCH029 | Status of the SPARC Project | 110 |
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| The SPARC Project is starting the commissioning of its photo-injector. RF gun, RF sources, RF network and control, power supplies, emittance meter, beam diagnostics and control to measure the RF gun beam are installed. The photocathode drive laser has been characterized in terms of pulse shape and quality. We expect to conduct beam measurements at RF gun exit in the next future and consequently to start the installation of accelerating sections. The design of the 12 m undulator for the FEL experiment has been completed and the first undulator section out of 6 is under construction: we expect to characterize it at Frascati ENEA laboratory within the next months. SPARC as a facility will host FEL experiments using SASE, seeding and non-linear resonant harmonics. Additional R&D on X-band and S-band structures for velocity bunching are in progress, as well as studies on new photocathode materials and exotic undulator designs. We also present studies on solenoid field defects, beam based alignments, exotic electron bunch production (blow-out of short laser pulses or intensity modulated laser pulses). The possible use of segmented superconducting micro-undulators will be discussed too. | ||
| WEPLS021 | The PLASMONX Project for Advanced Beam Physics Experiments | 2439 |
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| The Project PLASMONX is well progressing into its design phase and has entered as well its second phase of procurements for main components. The project foresees the installation at LNF of a Ti:Sa laser system (peak power > 170 TW), synchronized to the high brightness electron beam produced by the SPARC photo-injector. The advancement of the procurement of such a laser system is reported, as well as the construction plans of a new building at LNF to host a dedicated laboratory for high intensity photon beam experiments (High Intensity Laser Laboratory). Several experiments are foreseen using this complex facility, mainly in the high gradient plasma acceleration field and in the field of mono-chromatic ultra-fast X-ray pulse generation via Thomson back-scattering. We present an innovative scheme of external injection of the SPARC beam into laser wake-field driven plasma waves. Detailed numerical simulations have been carried out to study the generation of short electron bunches, to be injected into plasma waves driven with adiabatically variable density in order to compress the bunch at injection and further accelerate it by preserving a small energy spread and good beam quality. | ||
| THPCH151 | Commissioning of the Laser System for SPARC Photoinjector | 3146 |
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| In this paper we report the commissioning of the SPARC photoinjector laser system. In the high brightness photoinjector the quality of the electron beam is directly related to the features of the laser pulse. In fact the temporal pulse shape, the temporization and the transverse distribution of the electron beam is determined by the incoming laser pulse. The SPARC laser system is based on an amplified Ti:Sapphire active medium and the pulse shape is imposed by a programmable acousto-optics dispersive filter. The transfer-line has been designed to reduce the angular jitter and to preserve to the cathode the temporal and spatial features of the laser pulse. The laser system has been integrated with the accelerator apparatus. The diagnostics and the control system has been completed. We present the measured performances and the simulations we carried out. | ||
| THPLS098 | Optimum Beam Creation in Photoinjectors Using Space-charge Expansion | 0 |
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It has recently been shown by Luiten* that by illuminating a photocathode with an ultra-short laser pulse of appropriate transverse profile, a uniform density, ellipsoidally shaped bunch is dynamically formed, which then has linear space-charge fields in all dimensions inside of the bunch. We study here this process, and its marriage to the standard emittance compensation scenario that is implemented in most modern photoinjectors. It is seen that the two processes are compatible, with simulations indicating that a very high brightness beam can be obtained. The scheme has produced stimulus for an experiment at the SPARC injector at Frascati in 2006. We review preparations for this experiment, and discuss the measurable quantities and their appropriate diagnosis, including the time-resolved observation of ellipsoidal beam shape at low energy. A scheme based on gating of Cerenkov radiation produced at an Aerogel for time-resolved measurements is proposed. Future measurements at high energy based on fs resolution RF sweepers are discussed. The prospects for using the very low longitudinal emittance beam in a future bunch compressor for producing 10 micron long beams are evaluated.
*O. J. Luiten et al. Physical Review Letters, 93, 094802-1 (2004). |
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| THPLS105 | Characterization of the SPARC Photo-injector with the Movable Emittance Meter | 3523 |
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| As a first stage of the commissioning of SPARC accelerator a complete characterization of the photo-injector is planned. The objective is the optimization of the RF-gun setting that best matches the design working point and, generally, a detailed study of the emittance compensation process providing the optimal value of emittance at the end of the linac. For this purpose a novel beam diagnostic, the emittance-meter, consisting of a movable emittance measurement system, was conceived and built. This paper presents the results of the first measurements with the emittance-meter showing the characteristics and the performance at the SPARC photo-injector. |