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Extreme High Vacuum System of High Brightness Electron Source for ERL

979

M. Yamamoto, T. Honda, Y. Honda, T. Miyajima, Y. Saito, Y. Tanimoto, T. Uchiyama
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
H. Akimichi, H. Yoshida
AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
H. Kurisu
Yamaguchi University, Ube-Shi, Japan

A compact test accelerator for Japan’s future light source based on energy recovery linac (ERL) is under construction in KEK, aiming to demonstrate key technologies such as a high-brightness photocathode DC-gun and superconducting RF cavities. A DC-gun using GaAs-type photocathode which has a negative electron affinity (NEA) surface is employed. The NEA surface plays an indispensable role to extract electrons from conduction band minimum into vacuum. It assures high quantum efficiency of the photocathode and very low intrinsic emittance of the extracted beam. However, the NEA surface is extremely delicate against residual gas in vacuum. In order to extract mA-level beam currents continuously for more than several tens of hours, the pressure should be lower than the order of ·10^-10 Pa to avid the backbombardment of positive ions produced by the collision of accelerated electrons with residual gas molecules in the beam path. Recent achievements in the development of a 500-kV photocathode DC-gun and in the fundamental studies of its extreme high vacuum system will be presented.

Slides TUODB02 [1.606 MB]

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TUODB02	Extreme High Vacuum System of High Brightness Electron Source for ERL	979
	M. Yamamoto, T. Honda, Y. Honda, T. Miyajima, Y. Saito, Y. Tanimoto, T. Uchiyama KEK, Ibaraki, Japan H. Akimichi, H. Yoshida AIST, Tsukuba, Japan H. Kurisu Yamaguchi University, Ube-Shi, Japan
	A compact test accelerator for Japan’s future light source based on energy recovery linac (ERL) is under construction in KEK, aiming to demonstrate key technologies such as a high-brightness photocathode DC-gun and superconducting RF cavities. A DC-gun using GaAs-type photocathode which has a negative electron affinity (NEA) surface is employed. The NEA surface plays an indispensable role to extract electrons from conduction band minimum into vacuum. It assures high quantum efficiency of the photocathode and very low intrinsic emittance of the extracted beam. However, the NEA surface is extremely delicate against residual gas in vacuum. In order to extract mA-level beam currents continuously for more than several tens of hours, the pressure should be lower than the order of ·10^-10 Pa to avid the backbombardment of positive ions produced by the collision of accelerated electrons with residual gas molecules in the beam path. Recent achievements in the development of a 500-kV photocathode DC-gun and in the fundamental studies of its extreme high vacuum system will be presented.
	Slides TUODB02 [1.606 MB]