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| MOPC068 | Preliminary Characterization of the Beam Properties of the SPARC Photoinjector | 226 |
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| The SPARC photoinjector is the test prototype of the recently approved SPARX project. It is used as R&D facility to perform accurate beam dynamics studies, comparing measurements and simulations. Emittance measurements at the gun exit and at the full energy has been performed and benchmarked with the simulations. | ||
| TUPC018 | New Experimental Results with Optical Diffraction Radiation Diagnostics | 1083 |
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| The characterization of the transverse phase space for high charge density and high energy electron beams is demanding for the successful development of the next generation light sources and linear colliders. The interest in a non-invasive and non-intercepting beam diagnostics is increasingly high due to the stringent features of such beams. Optical Diffraction Radiation (ODR) is considered as one of the most promising candidates to measure the transverse beam size and angular divergence, i.e. the transverse emittance. An experiment, based on the detection of the ODR angular distribution, has been set up at DESY FLASH Facility to measure the electron beam transverse parameters. In this paper we report the recent results on the incoherent diffraction radiation produced by a 1 GeV energy electron beam going through a rectangular slit. | ||
| WEPC069 | A Possible THz Radiation Source with a Train of Short Pulses in the SPARC High Brightness Photoinjector | 2154 |
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| A radiofrequency electron gun followed by a compressor can generate trains of THz sub-picosecond electron pulses by illuminating the photocathode with a comb laser pulse. This structure of the beam can be used to produce coherent radiation. A feasibility study for a possible experiment at SPARC to be realized with the addition of a dedicated magnetic chicane is discussed. An optimization study of a magnetic chicane with a negative and variable R56 is studied, together with a set of parameters relative to the SPARC machine with the intent of demonstrating the feasibility of this experiment. The dynamics is studied within the SPARC system with the PARMELA code and with the RETAR code for the evaluation of the radiation. | ||
| WEPC075 | Recent Results and Future Perspectives of the SPARC Project | 2169 |
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| The SPARC project foresees the realization of a high brightness photo-injector to produce a 150-200 MeV electron beam to drive 500 nm FEL experiments in various configurations, a Thomson backscattering source and a plasma accelerator experiment. The SPARC photoinjector is also the test facility for the recently approved VUV FEL project named SPARX. As a first stage of the commissioning a complete characterization of the photoinjector has been accomplished with a detailed study of the emittance compensation process downstream the gun-solenoid system and the demonstration of the emittance oscillation in the drift. The second stage of the commissioning, that is currently underway, foresees a detailed analysis of the beam matching with the linac in order to confirm the theoretically prediction of emittance compensation based on the “invariant envelope” matching and the demonstration of the “velocity bunching” technique in the linac. In this paper we report the experimental results obtained so far and the scientific program for the near future. |