IPAC2016 - List of Authors (Dal Forno, M.)

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MOPMR056	Single-shot THz Spectrometer for Measurement of RF Breakdown in mm-wave Accelerators	374
	S.V. Kutsaev, A.Y. Murokh, M. Ruelas, E.A. Savin, H.L. To RadiaBeam Systems, Santa Monica, California, USA M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA V. Goncharik Logicware Inc, New York, USA E.A. Savin MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
	Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics, under contract DE-SC0013684 We present a new instrument designed to detect RF pulse shortening caused by vacuum RF breakdown in mm-wave particle accelerators. RF breakdown limits the performance of high gradient RF accelerators. To understand the properties of these breakdowns, it is necessary to have diagnostics that reliably detect RF breakdowns. In X-band or S-band accelerators, RF breakdowns are detected by measuring RF pulse shortening, vacuum burst, or, if current monitors are available, spikes in the field-emitted currents. In mm-wave accelerators, all of these methods are difficult to use. In our experiments, we could not measure RF pulse shortening directly with a crystal detector because the RF pulse is very short'just a few nanoseconds'and changes in the measured signal were masked by RF amplitude jitter. To overcome this limitation, we built a single-shot spectrometer with a frequency range of 117-125 GHz and a resolution of 0.1 GHz. The spectrometer should be able to measure the widening of the spectrum caused by the shortening of nanosecond-long pulses. We present design considerations, first experimental results obtained at FACET, and planned future improvements for the spectrometer.
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MOPMW039	TM01 Mode Launcher for Use in High Brightness Photoguns	491
	A.D. Cahill UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: DOE SCGSR and DOE/SU Contract DE-AC02-76-SF00515 Photo rf guns are a source of electron beams for X-ray FELs such as LCLS and European XFEL. In existing photoguns power is coupled into the cavity by waveguides through the cell walls, like LCLS, or through coaxial coupling, at the European XFEL. We are considering feeding a gun using a circular waveguide with the TM01 mode. To do that we need a mode launcher, a matched device that couples the rectangular TE01 mode waveguide to a TM01 mode in a circular waveguide. Use of the mode launcher reduces complexity of the gun cavity and increases flexibility of positioning the input waveguide relative to the gun body. Mode launchers have been successfully used at SLAC and elsewhere for X-band high gradient tests. Because the existing mode launchers were not built for high brightness guns, they have a significant quadrupole field component. High brightness rf guns have tight requirements on output beam properties, and this quadrupole component adversely affects the beam. We have designed a mode launcher free of this disadvantage. We present design considerations, methodology, and an example S-band mode launcher.
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MOPMW040	Electron Beam Excitation of a Surface Wave in mm-Wave Open Accelerating Structures	494
	M. Dal Forno, G.B. Bowden, C.I. Clarke, V.A. Dolgashev, M.J. Hogan, D.J. McCormick, A. Novokhatski, B.D. O'Shea, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA B. Spataro INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. As part of research on the physics of rf breakdowns we performed experiments with high gradient traveling-wave mm-wave accelerating structures. The accelerating structures are open, composed of two identical halves separated by an adjustable gap. The electromagnetic fields are excited by an ultra-relativistic electron beam. We observed that a confined travelling-wave mode exists in half of the accelerating structure. The experiments were conducted at FACET facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Depending on the gap width, the accelerating structure had beam-synchronous frequencies that vary from 90 to 140 GHz. When we opened the gap by more than half wavelength the synchronous wave remains trapped. Its behavior is consistent with the so called "surface wave". We characterized this beam-wave interaction by several methods: measurement of the radiated rf energy with the pyro-detector, measurement of the spectrum with an interferometer, measurement of the beam deflection by using the beam position monitors and profile monitor.
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MOPMW041	Measurements of RF Breakdowns in Beam Driven mm-Wave Accelerating Structures	497
	M. Dal Forno, G.B. Bowden, C.I. Clarke, V.A. Dolgashev, M.J. Hogan, D.J. McCormick, A. Novokhatski, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA B. Spataro INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 We studied the physics and properties of rf breakdowns in high gradient traveling-wave accelerating structures at 100 GHz. The structures are open, made of two halves with a gap in between. The rf fields were excited in the structure by an ultra-relativistic electron beam generated by the FACET facility at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We observed rf breakdowns generated in the presence of GV/m scale electric fields. We varied the rf fields excited by the FACET bunch by moving structure relative to the beam and by changing the gap between structure halves. Reliable breakdowns detectors allowed us to measure the rf breakdown rate at these different rf parameters. We measured radiated rf energy with a pyro-detector. When the beam was off-axis, we observed beam deflection in the beam position monitors and on the screen of a magnetic spectrometer. The measurements of the deflection allowed us to verify our calculation of the accelerating gradient.
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MOPMW042	Multi-Dimensional RF Sources Design	501
	M. Dal Forno, A. Jensen, R.D. Ruth, S.G. Tantawi SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. Vacuum electronic devices, such as rf sources for accelerator applications, must provide high rf power with high efficiency. To achieve these requirements, multi-beam klystron and sheet-beam klystron devices have been developed. Multi-beam klystrons, at high frequency employ separate output cavities; hence they have the disadvantage that combining all the rf pulses, generated by all the beams, is challenging. Sheet-beam klystrons have problems with instabilities and with space charge forces that makes the beam not naturally confined. We are proposing an alternative approach that reduces space charge problems, by adopting geometries in which the space charge forces are naturally balanced. An example is when the electron beam is generated by a central source (well) and the electron motion corresponds to the natural expansion of the electron cloud (three-dimensional device). In this paper we will present the design and challenges of a bi-dimensional rf source, a cylindrical klystron, composed by concentric pancake resonant cavities. In this case, space charge forces are naturally balanced in the azimuthal direction.
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MOPOW046	RadiaBeam/SLAC Dechirper as a Passive Deflector	817
	A. Novokhatski, A. Brachmann, M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev, A.S. Fisher, M.W. Guetg, Z. Huang, R.H. Iverson, P. Krejcik, A.A. Lutman, T.J. Maxwell SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA J. Zemella DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	Funding: This work was supported by Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. We discuss the possibility of using the RadiBeam/SLAC dechirper recently installed at LCLS for measuring the bunch length of very short bunches, less than 1 fs perhaps as short as 100 atto second. When a bunch travels close to one of the jaws the particles of the bunch get a transverse kick depends upon the position of a particle in a bunch. The tail particles get more kick. The transverse force also gets a nonlinear dependence on the transverse position. The stretched bunch can be measured at the YAG screen that is 100 m downstream the dechirper. The most important aspect of this measurement is that that no synchronization is needed. The Green's function for the transverse kick was evaluated based on the precise wake field calculations of the dechirper corrugated structure. Using this function we can restore the longitudinal shape of the bunch. This may also help to see if a bunch has any micro-bunch structure. A. Noovokhatski "Wakefield potentials of corrugated structures",Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18, 104402 (2015)
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THPOR044	mm-Wave Standing-Wave Accelerating Structures for High-Gradient Tests	3884
	E.A. Nanni, M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA S.C. Schaub MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA R.J. Temkin MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
	We present the design and parameters of single-cell accelerating structures for high-gradient testing at 110 GHz. The purpose of this work is to study the basic physics of ultrahigh vacuum RF breakdown in high-gradient RF accelerators. The accelerating structures consist of pi-mode standing-wave cavities fed with TM01 circular waveguide mode. The geometry and field shape of these accelerating structures is as close as practical to single-cell standing-wave X-band accelerating structures, more than 40 of which were tested at SLAC. This wealth of X-band data will serve as a baseline for these 110 GHz tests. The structures will be powered from a pulsed MW gyrotron oscillator. One MW of RF power from the gyrotron may allow us to reach a peak accelerating gradient of 400 MeV/m.
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THPOW028	Automated Design for Standing Wave Electron Photoguns: TOPGUN RF Design	3999
	A.D. Cahill UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: DOE SCGSR and DOE/SU Contract DE-AC02-76-SF00515 Systematic design of RF photoguns involves multiple RF simulations in conjunction with beam dynamic simulations. RF simulations include tuning gun frequency, matching the gun to the feeding RF circuit, balancing the on axis electric fields between gun cells, minimizing surface electric and magnetic fields and power consumption, and optimizing separation of resonant mode frequencies. We created a tool that allows this multiple parameter optimization to be done automatically. We used SUPERFISH to accomplish the RF simulations. We present an example of the rf photogun TOPGUN design using these tools.
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Single-shot THz Spectrometer for Measurement of RF Breakdown in mm-wave Accelerators

374

S.V. Kutsaev, A.Y. Murokh, M. Ruelas, E.A. Savin, H.L. To
RadiaBeam Systems, Santa Monica, California, USA
M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
V. Goncharik
Logicware Inc, New York, USA
E.A. Savin
MEPhI, Moscow, Russia

Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics, under contract DE-SC0013684
We present a new instrument designed to detect RF pulse shortening caused by vacuum RF breakdown in mm-wave particle accelerators. RF breakdown limits the performance of high gradient RF accelerators. To understand the properties of these breakdowns, it is necessary to have diagnostics that reliably detect RF breakdowns. In X-band or S-band accelerators, RF breakdowns are detected by measuring RF pulse shortening, vacuum burst, or, if current monitors are available, spikes in the field-emitted currents. In mm-wave accelerators, all of these methods are difficult to use. In our experiments, we could not measure RF pulse shortening directly with a crystal detector because the RF pulse is very short'just a few nanoseconds'and changes in the measured signal were masked by RF amplitude jitter. To overcome this limitation, we built a single-shot spectrometer with a frequency range of 117-125 GHz and a resolution of 0.1 GHz. The spectrometer should be able to measure the widening of the spectrum caused by the shortening of nanosecond-long pulses. We present design considerations, first experimental results obtained at FACET, and planned future improvements for the spectrometer.

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MOPMW039

TM01 Mode Launcher for Use in High Brightness Photoguns

491

A.D. Cahill
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: DOE SCGSR and DOE/SU Contract DE-AC02-76-SF00515
Photo rf guns are a source of electron beams for X-ray FELs such as LCLS and European XFEL. In existing photoguns power is coupled into the cavity by waveguides through the cell walls, like LCLS, or through coaxial coupling, at the European XFEL. We are considering feeding a gun using a circular waveguide with the TM01 mode. To do that we need a mode launcher, a matched device that couples the rectangular TE01 mode waveguide to a TM01 mode in a circular waveguide. Use of the mode launcher reduces complexity of the gun cavity and increases flexibility of positioning the input waveguide relative to the gun body. Mode launchers have been successfully used at SLAC and elsewhere for X-band high gradient tests. Because the existing mode launchers were not built for high brightness guns, they have a significant quadrupole field component. High brightness rf guns have tight requirements on output beam properties, and this quadrupole component adversely affects the beam. We have designed a mode launcher free of this disadvantage. We present design considerations, methodology, and an example S-band mode launcher.

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MOPMW040

Electron Beam Excitation of a Surface Wave in mm-Wave Open Accelerating Structures

494

M. Dal Forno, G.B. Bowden, C.I. Clarke, V.A. Dolgashev, M.J. Hogan, D.J. McCormick, A. Novokhatski, B.D. O'Shea, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
B. Spataro
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy

Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
As part of research on the physics of rf breakdowns we performed experiments with high gradient traveling-wave mm-wave accelerating structures. The accelerating structures are open, composed of two identical halves separated by an adjustable gap. The electromagnetic fields are excited by an ultra-relativistic electron beam. We observed that a confined travelling-wave mode exists in half of the accelerating structure. The experiments were conducted at FACET facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Depending on the gap width, the accelerating structure had beam-synchronous frequencies that vary from 90 to 140 GHz. When we opened the gap by more than half wavelength the synchronous wave remains trapped. Its behavior is consistent with the so called "surface wave". We characterized this beam-wave interaction by several methods: measurement of the radiated rf energy with the pyro-detector, measurement of the spectrum with an interferometer, measurement of the beam deflection by using the beam position monitors and profile monitor.

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MOPMW041

Measurements of RF Breakdowns in Beam Driven mm-Wave Accelerating Structures

497

M. Dal Forno, G.B. Bowden, C.I. Clarke, V.A. Dolgashev, M.J. Hogan, D.J. McCormick, A. Novokhatski, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
B. Spataro
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy

Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
We studied the physics and properties of rf breakdowns in high gradient traveling-wave accelerating structures at 100 GHz. The structures are open, made of two halves with a gap in between. The rf fields were excited in the structure by an ultra-relativistic electron beam generated by the FACET facility at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We observed rf breakdowns generated in the presence of GV/m scale electric fields. We varied the rf fields excited by the FACET bunch by moving structure relative to the beam and by changing the gap between structure halves. Reliable breakdowns detectors allowed us to measure the rf breakdown rate at these different rf parameters. We measured radiated rf energy with a pyro-detector. When the beam was off-axis, we observed beam deflection in the beam position monitors and on the screen of a magnetic spectrometer. The measurements of the deflection allowed us to verify our calculation of the accelerating gradient.

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MOPMW042

Multi-Dimensional RF Sources Design

501

M. Dal Forno, A. Jensen, R.D. Ruth, S.G. Tantawi
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: Work supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Vacuum electronic devices, such as rf sources for accelerator applications, must provide high rf power with high efficiency. To achieve these requirements, multi-beam klystron and sheet-beam klystron devices have been developed. Multi-beam klystrons, at high frequency employ separate output cavities; hence they have the disadvantage that combining all the rf pulses, generated by all the beams, is challenging. Sheet-beam klystrons have problems with instabilities and with space charge forces that makes the beam not naturally confined. We are proposing an alternative approach that reduces space charge problems, by adopting geometries in which the space charge forces are naturally balanced. An example is when the electron beam is generated by a central source (well) and the electron motion corresponds to the natural expansion of the electron cloud (three-dimensional device). In this paper we will present the design and challenges of a bi-dimensional rf source, a cylindrical klystron, composed by concentric pancake resonant cavities. In this case, space charge forces are naturally balanced in the azimuthal direction.

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MOPOW046

RadiaBeam/SLAC Dechirper as a Passive Deflector

817

A. Novokhatski, A. Brachmann, M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev, A.S. Fisher, M.W. Guetg, Z. Huang, R.H. Iverson, P. Krejcik, A.A. Lutman, T.J. Maxwell
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
J. Zemella
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Funding: This work was supported by Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.
We discuss the possibility of using the RadiBeam/SLAC dechirper recently installed at LCLS for measuring the bunch length of very short bunches, less than 1 fs perhaps as short as 100 atto second. When a bunch travels close to one of the jaws the particles of the bunch get a transverse kick depends upon the position of a particle in a bunch. The tail particles get more kick. The transverse force also gets a nonlinear dependence on the transverse position. The stretched bunch can be measured at the YAG screen that is 100 m downstream the dechirper. The most important aspect of this measurement is that that no synchronization is needed. The Green's function for the transverse kick was evaluated based on the precise wake field calculations of the dechirper corrugated structure*. Using this function we can restore the longitudinal shape of the bunch. This may also help to see if a bunch has any micro-bunch structure.
* A. Noovokhatski "Wakefield potentials of corrugated structures",Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18, 104402 (2015)

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THPOR044

mm-Wave Standing-Wave Accelerating Structures for High-Gradient Tests

3884

E.A. Nanni, M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
S.C. Schaub
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
R.J. Temkin
MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

We present the design and parameters of single-cell accelerating structures for high-gradient testing at 110 GHz. The purpose of this work is to study the basic physics of ultrahigh vacuum RF breakdown in high-gradient RF accelerators. The accelerating structures consist of pi-mode standing-wave cavities fed with TM01 circular waveguide mode. The geometry and field shape of these accelerating structures is as close as practical to single-cell standing-wave X-band accelerating structures, more than 40 of which were tested at SLAC. This wealth of X-band data will serve as a baseline for these 110 GHz tests. The structures will be powered from a pulsed MW gyrotron oscillator. One MW of RF power from the gyrotron may allow us to reach a peak accelerating gradient of 400 MeV/m.

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THPOW028

Automated Design for Standing Wave Electron Photoguns: TOPGUN RF Design

3999

A.D. Cahill
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
M. Dal Forno, V.A. Dolgashev
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: DOE SCGSR and DOE/SU Contract DE-AC02-76-SF00515
Systematic design of RF photoguns involves multiple RF simulations in conjunction with beam dynamic simulations. RF simulations include tuning gun frequency, matching the gun to the feeding RF circuit, balancing the on axis electric fields between gun cells, minimizing surface electric and magnetic fields and power consumption, and optimizing separation of resonant mode frequencies. We created a tool that allows this multiple parameter optimization to be done automatically. We used SUPERFISH to accomplish the RF simulations. We present an example of the rf photogun TOPGUN design using these tools.

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