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TY - CONF AU - Park, J.-W. AU - Kim, K.-J. AU - Lindberg, R.R. ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Decking, Winfried ED - Sinn, Harald ED - Geloni, Gianluca ED - Schreiber, Siegfried ED - Marx, Michaela TI - An Investigation of Possible Non-Standard Photon Statistics in a Free-Electron Laser I: Experiment J2 - Proc. of FEL2019, Hamburg, Germany, 26-30 August 2019 CY - Hamburg, Germany T2 - Free Electron Laser Conference T3 - 39 LA - english AB - It was reported that the photon statistics of the seventh coherent spontaneous harmonic radiation of the MARK III FEL was sub-Poissonian [1], which concludes that Fano factor F (the ratio of photon number variance to the average photon number) is less than unity. Whether FEL light exhibits such non-standard behavior is an important issue; if it does, our understanding of the FEL needs to be radically modified. In this paper, we re-examine the analyses of experimental data in Ref. [1]. We find that the observed value of F could be explained within the standard FEL theory if one combines the detector dead time effect with photon clustering arising from the FEL gain. We propose an improved experiment for a more definitive measurement of the FEL photon statistics. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 161 EP - 164 KW - photon KW - FEL KW - experiment KW - cavity KW - radiation DA - 2019/11 PY - 2019 SN - "" SN - 978-3-95450-210-3 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP053 UR - http://jacow.org/fel2019/papers/tup053.pdf ER -