Author: Rao, T.
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TUPC178 Charge Lifetime Study of K2CsSb Photocathode Inside a Jlab DC High Voltage Gun 1443
 
  • R.R. Mammei, M. Poelker, R. Suleiman
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • J.L. McCarter
    UVa, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
  • T. Rao, J. Smedley
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. DOE
Two photocathodes are frequently considered for generating high average current electron beams and/or beams with high brightness for current and future accelerator applications: GaAs:Cs and K2CsSb. Each photocathode has advantages and disadvantages, and need to demonstrate performance at “production” accelerator facilities. To this end a K2CsSb photocathode was manufactured at Brookhaven National Lab and delivered to Jefferson Lab within a compact vacuum apparatus at pressure ~ 5x10-11 Torr. This photocathode was installed inside a dc high voltage photogun biased at voltages up to 200 kV, and illuminated with laser light at 440 or 532 nm, to generate beams up to 20 mA. Photocathode charge lifetime measurements indicate that under some conditions this cathode has exceptionally high charge lifetime, without measurable QE decay, even from the center of the photocathode where operation using GaAs photocathodes is precluded due to ion bombardment. These studies also suggest a complex QE decay mechanism likely related to chemistry and localized heating via the laser beam.
 
 
WEPC132 Simulations of Surface Effects and Electron Emission from Diamond-Amplifier Cathodes 2307
 
  • D.A. Dimitrov, R. Busby, J.R. Cary, D.N. Smithe
    Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • I. Ben-Zvi
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • X. Chang, T. Rao, J. Smedley, Q. Wu
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • E. Wang
    PKU/IHIP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under grants DE-SC0004431 (Tech-X Corp.), DE-AC02-98CH10886 (BNL), and DE-SC0005713 (Stony Brook University).
Emission of electrons in diamond experiments based on the promising diamond-amplifier concept* was recently demonstrated**. Transmission mode experiments have shown the potential to realize over two orders of magnitude charge amplification. However, the recent emission experiments indicate that surface effects should be understood in detail to build cathodes with optimal properties. We have made progress in understanding secondary electron generation and charge transport in diamond with models we implemented in the VORPAL particle-in-cell computational framework. We will introduce models that we have been implementing for surface effects (band bending and electron affinity), charge trapping, and electron emission from diamond. Then, we will present results from 3D VORPAL diamond-vacuum simulations with the integrated capabilities on generating electrons and holes, initiated by energetic primary electrons, charge transport, and then emission of electrons from diamond into vacuum. Finally, we will discuss simulation results on the dependence of the electron emission on diamond surface properties.
* I. Ben-Zvi et al., Secondary emission enhanced photoinjector, C-AD Accel. Phys. Rep. C-A/AP/149, BNL (2004).
** X. Chang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 164801 (2010).
 
 
THPC136 High Efficiency Visible Photocathode Development 3206
 
  • J. Smedley, K. Mueller, T. Rao
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • K. Attenkofer, S.W. Lee
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • I. Ben-Zvi, X. Liang, E.M. Muller, M. Ruiz-Oses
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • H.A. Padmore, T. Vecchione
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Alkali antimonide cathodes are critical both for high average current photoinjectors for energy recovery linacs and for high quantum efficiency photodetectors. These cathodes have historically been plagued by extreme vacuum sensitivity, non-reproducibility and poor lifetime. We report on ongoing efforts to improve the performance of alkali antimonides (principally K2CsSb). Cathodes have been fabricated which have a QE of 7% at 532 nm. The films are much more resistant to oxygen and water exposure than previously thought, with a 50% yield lifetime of 20 hrs at 2 pBar partial pressure of water. Several analysis techniques have been employed in this study, including in-situ x-ray diffraction during growth to measure grain size and texture, measurement of transverse momentum distribution of the emitted electrons, and measurement of the stoichiometry of the films via x-ray fluorescence. An extensive study of the growth parameters, including both transparent and metallic substrates, sputtered and evaporated films, variation of growth time and temperatures and post-growth annealing processes, is currently underway.  
 
THPS009 Coherent Electron Cooling Demonstration Experiment 3442
 
  • V. Litvinenko, S.A. Belomestnykh, I. Ben-Zvi, J. Bengtsson, A.V. Fedotov, Y. Hao, D. Kayran, G.J. Mahler, W. Meng, T. Rao, T. Roser, B. Sheehy, R. Than, J.E. Tuozzolo, G. Wang, V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • G.I. Bell, D.L. Bruhwiler, V.H. Ranjbar, B.T. Schwartz
    Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • A. Hutton, G.A. Krafft, M. Poelker, R.A. Rimmer
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • M.A. Kholopov, P. Vobly
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
 
  Coherent electron cooling (CEC) is considered to be on of potential candidates capable of cooling high-energy, high-intensity hadron beams to very small emittances. It also has a potential to significantly boost luminosity of high-energy hadron-hadron and electron-hadron colliders. In a CEC system, a perturbation of the electron density caused by a hadron is amplified and fed back to the hadrons to reduce the energy spread and the emittance of the beam. Following the funding decision by DoE office of Nuclear Physics, we are designing and building coherent electron cooler for a proof-of-principle experiment at RHIC to cool 40 GeV heavy ion beam. In this paper, we describe the layout of the CeC installed into IP2 interaction region at RHIC. We present the design of the CeC cooler and results of preliminary simulations.  
 
THPZ019 High Luminosity Electron-hadron Collider eRHIC 3726
 
  • V. Ptitsyn, E.C. Aschenauer, J. Beebe-Wang, S.A. Belomestnykh, I. Ben-Zvi, R. Calaga, X. Chang, A.V. Fedotov, H. Hahn, L.R. Hammons, Y. Hao, P. He, A.K. Jain, E.C. Johnson, D. Kayran, J. Kewisch, V. Litvinenko, G.J. Mahler, W. Meng, B. Parker, A.I. Pikin, T. Rao, T. Roser, B. Sheehy, J. Skaritka, R. Than, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, G. Wang, Q. Wu, W. Xu
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  We present the design of a future high-energy high-luminosity electron-hadron collider at RHIC called eRHIC. We plan adding 20 (30) GeV energy recovery linacs to accelerate and to collide polarized and unpolarized electrons with hadrons in RHIC. The center-of-mass energy of eRHIC will range from 30 to 200 GeV. The luminosity exceeding 1034 cm-2s−1 can be achieved in eRHIC using the low-beta interaction region which a 10 mrad crab crossing. A natural staging scenario of step-by-step increases of the electron beam energy by builiding-up of eRHIC's SRF linacs. We report on the eRHIC design and cost estimates for it stages. We discuss the progress of eRHC R&D projects from the polarized electron source to the coherent electron cooling.