Author: Carlsten, B.E.
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THPC133 Pre-Conceptual Design Requirements For The MaRIE Facility At LANL And The Resulting X-Ray Free Electron Laser Baseline Design 3197
 
  • R.L. Sheffield, B.E. Carlsten
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  The MaRIE (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes) facility is being proposed to advance materials science by the concurrent utilization of a diverse set of highly penetrating probes. These probes will provide the basis for developing materials that will perform predictably and on demand with currently unattainable lifetimes in extreme environments. The MaRIE facilities, the Multi-Probe Diagnostic Hall (MPDH), the Fission and Fusion Materials Facility (F3), and the Making, Measuring, and Modeling Materials (M4) Facility will each have experimental needs for one or more high-energy x-ray beam probes, but all require a 50-keV coherent source of greater than 1010 photons in less than 1 ps. Because of space considerations at the facility, a high-gradient design is being investigated that will use a X-band RF systems to drive a 20-GeV normal-conducting linac. Experimental requirements drive a need for multiple photon bunches over time durations greater than 1 microsecond, as well as interleaving 0.1 nC very-low-emittance bunches with 2-nC electron bunches. This paper will cover an overview of the scientific requirements for the MaRIE XFEL and the baseline XFEL design.