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TUOCB102 | SPARC_LAB Recent Results | 1114 |
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A new facility named SPARC_LAB (Sources for Plasma Accelerators and Radiation Compton with Lasers and Beams) has been recently launched at the INFN National Labs in Frascati, merging the potentialities of the an ultra-brilliant electron beam photoinjector and of a high power Ti:Sa laser. The test facility is now completed, hosting a 150 MeV high brightness electron beam injector which feeds a 12 meters long undulator. Observation of FEL radiation in variuous configurations has been performed. In parallel to that a 200 TW laser that is linked to the linac and devoted to explore laser-matter interaction, in particular with regard to laser-plasma acceleration of electrons (and protons) in the self injection and external injection modes. The facility will be also used for particle driven plasma acceleration experiments (the COMB experiment). A Thomson scattering experiment coupling the electron bunch to the high-power laser to generate coherent monochromatic X-ray radiation is also in the commissioning phase. We report in this paper the recent results obtained at the SPARC_LAB facility. | ||
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WEPFI013 | The Damped C-band RF Structures for the European ELI-NP Proposal | 2726 |
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The gamma beam system of the European ELI-NP proposal foresees the use of a multi-bunch train colliding with a high intensity recirculated laser pulse. The linac energy booster is composed of 14 travelling wave C-Band structures, 1.8 m long with a field phase advance per cell of 2π/3 and a repetition rate of 100 Hz. Because of the multi-bunch operation, the structures have been designed with a damping of the HOM dipoles modes in order to avoid beam break-up (BBU). In the paper we discuss the design criteria of the structures also illustrating the effectiveness of the damping in the control of the BBU. Prototype activity is finally illustrated. | ||
WEPFI086 | Normal Conducting Radio Frequency X-band Deflecting Cavity Fabrication, Validation and Tuning | 2899 |
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An X-band Traveling wave Deflector mode cavity (XTD) has been developed, fabricated, tuned and characterized by Radiabeam Technologies to perform longitudinal measurement of the sub-picosecond ultra-relativistic electron beams. The device is optimized for the 100 MeV electron beam parameters at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and is scalable to higher energies. The XTD is designed to operate at 11.424 GHz, and features short filling time, femtosecond resolution, and a small footprint. RF design, structure fabrication, cold testing and tuning results are presented. | ||
WEPME061 | A Wideband Slotted Kicker Design for SPS Transverse Intra-bunch Feedback | 3073 |
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Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) and by the EU FP7 HiLumi LHC - Grant Agreement 284404. Control and mitigation of transverse beam instabilities caused by electron cloud and TMCI will be essential for the SPS to meet the beam intensity demands for the HL-LHC upgrade. A wideband intra-bunch feedback method is in development, based on a 4 GS/s data acquisition and processing, and with a back end frequency structure extending to 1 GHz. A slotted type kicker, similar to those used for stochastic cooling, has been considered as the terminal element of the feedback chain. It offers the most promising deflecting structure characteristics to meet the system requirements in terms of bandwidth, shunt impedance, and beam coupling impedance. Different types of slotted structures have been explored and simulated, including a ridged waveguide and coaxial type waveguide. In this paper we present our findings and the conceptual design of a vertical SPS wideband kicker consistent with the stay clear, vacuum, frequency band coverage, and peak shunt impedance requirements. |
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