IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Smedley, J.)

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First Characterization of a Fully Superconducting RF Photoinjector Cavity

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A. Neumann, W. Anders, R. Barday, A. Jankowiak, T. Kamps, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A.N. Matveenko, T. Quast, J. Rudolph, S.G. Schubert, J. Völker
HZB, Berlin, Germany
P. Kneisel
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
R. Nietubyc
The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland
J.K. Sekutowicz
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
J. Smedley
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
V. Volkov
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
G. Weinberg
FHI, Berlin, Germany
I. Will
MBI, Berlin, Germany

As a first step towards a high brightness, high average current electron source for the BERLinPro ERL a fully superconducting photo-injector was developed by HZB in collaboration with JLab, DESY and the A. Soltan Institute. This cavity-injector ensemble is made up of a 1.6-cell superconducting cavity with a superconducting lead cathode deposited on the half-cell backwall. A superconducting solenoid is used for emittance compensation. This system, including a diagnostics beamline, has been installed in the HoBiCaT facility to serve as a testbed for beam dynamics studies and to test the combination SRF cavity and superconducting solenoid. This paper summarizes the characterization of the cavity in this configuration including Q measurements, dark current tests and field-stability analyses.

Slides MOODA03 [10.343 MB]

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.

THPC109

First Demonstration of Electron Beam Generation and Characterization with an All Superconducting Radio-frequency (SRF) Photoinjector*

3143

T. Kamps, W. Anders, R. Barday, A. Jankowiak, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A.N. Matveenko, A. Neumann, T. Quast, J. Rudolph, S.G. Schubert, J. Völker
HZB, Berlin, Germany
P. Kneisel
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
R. Nietubyc
The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland
J.K. Sekutowicz
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
J. Smedley
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
V. Volkov
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
G. Weinberg
FHI, Berlin, Germany
I. Will
MBI, Berlin, Germany

Funding: Work supported by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und Land Berlin. The work on the Pb cathode film is supported by EuCARD Grant Agreement No. 227579
In preparation for a high brightness, high average current electron source for the energy-recovery linac BERLinPro an all superconducting radio-frequency photoinjector is now in operation at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. The aim of this experiment is beam demonstration with a high brightness electron source able to generate sub-ps pulse length electron bunches from a superconducting (SC) cathode film made of Pb coated on the backwall of a Nb SRF cavity. This paper describes the setup of the experiment and first results from beam measurements.

Paper	Title	Page
MOODA03	First Characterization of a Fully Superconducting RF Photoinjector Cavity	41
	A. Neumann, W. Anders, R. Barday, A. Jankowiak, T. Kamps, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A.N. Matveenko, T. Quast, J. Rudolph, S.G. Schubert, J. Völker HZB, Berlin, Germany P. Kneisel JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA R. Nietubyc The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland J.K. Sekutowicz DESY, Hamburg, Germany J. Smedley BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA V. Volkov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia G. Weinberg FHI, Berlin, Germany I. Will MBI, Berlin, Germany
	As a first step towards a high brightness, high average current electron source for the BERLinPro ERL a fully superconducting photo-injector was developed by HZB in collaboration with JLab, DESY and the A. Soltan Institute. This cavity-injector ensemble is made up of a 1.6-cell superconducting cavity with a superconducting lead cathode deposited on the half-cell backwall. A superconducting solenoid is used for emittance compensation. This system, including a diagnostics beamline, has been installed in the HoBiCaT facility to serve as a testbed for beam dynamics studies and to test the combination SRF cavity and superconducting solenoid. This paper summarizes the characterization of the cavity in this configuration including Q measurements, dark current tests and field-stability analyses.
	Slides MOODA03 [10.343 MB]

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.

THPC109	First Demonstration of Electron Beam Generation and Characterization with an All Superconducting Radio-frequency (SRF) Photoinjector*	3143
	T. Kamps, W. Anders, R. Barday, A. Jankowiak, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A.N. Matveenko, A. Neumann, T. Quast, J. Rudolph, S.G. Schubert, J. Völker HZB, Berlin, Germany P. Kneisel JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA R. Nietubyc The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland J.K. Sekutowicz DESY, Hamburg, Germany J. Smedley BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA V. Volkov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia G. Weinberg FHI, Berlin, Germany I. Will MBI, Berlin, Germany
	Funding: Work supported by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und Land Berlin. The work on the Pb cathode film is supported by EuCARD Grant Agreement No. 227579 In preparation for a high brightness, high average current electron source for the energy-recovery linac BERLinPro an all superconducting radio-frequency photoinjector is now in operation at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. The aim of this experiment is beam demonstration with a high brightness electron source able to generate sub-ps pulse length electron bunches from a superconducting (SC) cathode film made of Pb coated on the backwall of a Nb SRF cavity. This paper describes the setup of the experiment and first results from beam measurements.