IPAC2011 - Table of Session: WEOAB (Linear Colliders)

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Highly Polarized and High Quantum Efficiency Electron Source Using Transmission-type Photocathode

1950

N. Yamamoto, F. Ichihashi, A. Mano, T. Nakanishi, Y. Takeda, T. Ujihara
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
X.G. Jin
Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya, Japan

The GaAs-type semiconductor photocathodes (PCs) with a negative electron affinity surface have been used as a polarized electron source and are expected as electron sources for next generation accelerators, such as Linear Colliders and Energy Recovery Linacs. Recently, we have developed transmission-type photocathodes (T-PCs).　By using T-PCs, polarized electron beam is extracted from the back-side of laser irradiation-side.　This scheme offers great merits in designing electron guns, such as short focusing of the laser light for a high brilliance electron beam and a simple geometrical structure avoiding an interference problem between the laser and the electron beam. The layer structure of the MOVPE-grown superlattice photocathode and the performance of 90% polarization, a super high brilliance, and a high quantum efficiency will be reported.

Slides WEOAB01 [6.007 MB]

WEOAB02

FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC

1953

C.I. Clarke, F.-J. Decker, R.A. Erickson, C. Hast, M.J. Hogan, R.H. Iverson, S.Z. Li, Y. Nosochkov, N. Phinney, J. Sheppard, U. Wienands, W. Wittmer, M. Woodley, G. Yocky
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
A. Seryi
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515.
FACET (Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests) is a new User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Its high power electron and positron beams make it a unique facility, ideal for beam-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration studies. The first 2 km of the SLAC linac produce 23 GeV, 3.2 nC electron and positron beams with short bunch lengths of 20 um. A final focusing system can produce beam spots 10um wide. User-aided Commissioning took place in summer 2011 and FACET will formally come online in early 2012. We present the User Facility, the current features, planned upgrades and the opportunities for further experiments.

Slides WEOAB02 [4.772 MB]

WEOAB03

The Production of High Quality Electron Beams in the ALPHA-X Laser Wakefield Accelerator

1956

S.M. Wiggins, M.P. Anania, C. Aniculaesei, E. Brunetti, S. Cipiccia, B. Ersfeld, M.R. Islam, R.C. Issac, D.A. Jaroszynski, G.G. Manahan, R.P. Shanks, G.H. Welsh
USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
W.A. Gillespie
University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
A. MacLeod
UAD, Dundee, United Kingdom

Funding: The U.K. EPSRC, the EC's Seventh Framework Programme (LASERLAB-EUROPE / LAPTECH, grant agreement no. 228334) and the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project.
The Advanced Laser-Plasma High-Energy Accelerators towards X-rays (ALPHA-X) programme is developing laser-plasma accelerators for the production of ultra-short electron beams as drivers of incoherent and coherent radiation sources from plasma and magnetic undulators. Here we report on the latest laser wakefield accelerator experiments on the University of Strathclyde ALPHA-X accelerator beam line looking at high quality electron beams. ALPHA-X uses a 26 TW Ti:sapphire laser (energy 900 mJ, duration 35 fs) focused into a helium gas jet (nozzle length 2 mm) to generate high quality monoenergetic electron beams with central energy in the range 80-180 MeV. The beam is fully characterized in terms of the charge, bunch length, energy spread and transverse emittance. The energy spectrum (with less than 1% measured energy spread) is obtained using a high resolution magnetic dipole imaging spectrometer while pepper-pot mask measurements show that the normalized transverse emittance is as low as 1.1 pi mm mrad (resolution limited). The conditions needed to obtain this high quality are discussed.

Slides WEOAB03 [2.904 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
WEOAB01	Highly Polarized and High Quantum Efficiency Electron Source Using Transmission-type Photocathode	1950
	N. Yamamoto, F. Ichihashi, A. Mano, T. Nakanishi, Y. Takeda, T. Ujihara Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan X.G. Jin Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya, Japan
	The GaAs-type semiconductor photocathodes (PCs) with a negative electron affinity surface have been used as a polarized electron source and are expected as electron sources for next generation accelerators, such as Linear Colliders and Energy Recovery Linacs. Recently, we have developed transmission-type photocathodes (T-PCs).　By using T-PCs, polarized electron beam is extracted from the back-side of laser irradiation-side.　This scheme offers great merits in designing electron guns, such as short focusing of the laser light for a high brilliance electron beam and a simple geometrical structure avoiding an interference problem between the laser and the electron beam. The layer structure of the MOVPE-grown superlattice photocathode and the performance of 90% polarization, a super high brilliance, and a high quantum efficiency will be reported.
	Slides WEOAB01 [6.007 MB]

WEOAB02	FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC	1953
	C.I. Clarke, F.-J. Decker, R.A. Erickson, C. Hast, M.J. Hogan, R.H. Iverson, S.Z. Li, Y. Nosochkov, N. Phinney, J. Sheppard, U. Wienands, W. Wittmer, M. Woodley, G. Yocky SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA A. Seryi JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515. FACET (Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests) is a new User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Its high power electron and positron beams make it a unique facility, ideal for beam-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration studies. The first 2 km of the SLAC linac produce 23 GeV, 3.2 nC electron and positron beams with short bunch lengths of 20 um. A final focusing system can produce beam spots 10um wide. User-aided Commissioning took place in summer 2011 and FACET will formally come online in early 2012. We present the User Facility, the current features, planned upgrades and the opportunities for further experiments.
	Slides WEOAB02 [4.772 MB]

WEOAB03	The Production of High Quality Electron Beams in the ALPHA-X Laser Wakefield Accelerator	1956
	S.M. Wiggins, M.P. Anania, C. Aniculaesei, E. Brunetti, S. Cipiccia, B. Ersfeld, M.R. Islam, R.C. Issac, D.A. Jaroszynski, G.G. Manahan, R.P. Shanks, G.H. Welsh USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom W.A. Gillespie University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom A. MacLeod UAD, Dundee, United Kingdom
	Funding: The U.K. EPSRC, the EC's Seventh Framework Programme (LASERLAB-EUROPE / LAPTECH, grant agreement no. 228334) and the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project. The Advanced Laser-Plasma High-Energy Accelerators towards X-rays (ALPHA-X) programme is developing laser-plasma accelerators for the production of ultra-short electron beams as drivers of incoherent and coherent radiation sources from plasma and magnetic undulators. Here we report on the latest laser wakefield accelerator experiments on the University of Strathclyde ALPHA-X accelerator beam line looking at high quality electron beams. ALPHA-X uses a 26 TW Ti:sapphire laser (energy 900 mJ, duration 35 fs) focused into a helium gas jet (nozzle length 2 mm) to generate high quality monoenergetic electron beams with central energy in the range 80-180 MeV. The beam is fully characterized in terms of the charge, bunch length, energy spread and transverse emittance. The energy spectrum (with less than 1% measured energy spread) is obtained using a high resolution magnetic dipole imaging spectrometer while pepper-pot mask measurements show that the normalized transverse emittance is as low as 1.1 pi mm mrad (resolution limited). The conditions needed to obtain this high quality are discussed.
	Slides WEOAB03 [2.904 MB]