IPAC2016 - List of Authors (Militsyn, B.L.)

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MOPMR035	Bunch Length Measurements using a Transverse Deflecting Cavity on VELA	323
	J.W. McKenzie, S.R. Buckley, L.S. Cowie, P. Goudket, M. Jenkins, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss, A.E. Wheelhouse STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom G. Burt Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom A. Wolski The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
	The VELA facility at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK includes a 5 MeV/c 2.5 cell S-band photoinjector gun. This gun operates in the "blow-out" regime with a sub-200 fs length drive laser: the resulting bunch length is determined by space-charge effects. We present measurements made with an S-band transverse deflecting cavity to characterise the bunch length as a function of charge, and as a function of the gun operating phase.
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MOPOW037	Developments in the CLARA FEL Test Facility Accelerator Design and Simulations	797
	P.H. Williams, D. Angal-Kalinin, A.D. Brynes, J.A. Clarke, F. Jackson, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, N. Thompson STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom R.B. Appleby UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom B. Kyle University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
	We present recent developments in the accelerator design of CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications), the proposed UK FEL test facility at Daresbury Laboratory. In order to prioritise FEL schemes requiring the shortest electron bunches, the layout has changed significantly to enable compression at higher energy. Four proposed modes of operation are defined and tracked from cathode to FEL using ASTRA. Supplementing these baseline mode definitions with CSR-enabled codes (such as CSRTRACK) where appropriate is in progress. The FEL layout is re-optimised to include shorter undulators with delay chicanes between each radiator.
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THPMY017	A Comparison of Surface Properties of Metallic Thin Film Photocathodes	3691
	S. Mistry, M.D. Cropper Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom A.N. Hannah, L.B. Jones, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, T.C.Q. Noakes, R. Valizadeh STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	In this work physical vapour deposition magnetron sputtering has been employed to deposit metallic thin films onto Cu, Mo and Si substrates. The use of metallic thin films offers several advantages: (i) metal photocathodes present a fast response time and a relative insensitivity to the vacuum environment (ii) metallic thin films when prepared and transferred in vacuum can offer smoother and cleaner cathode surfaces. The photocathodes developed here will ultimately be used to drive NCRF guns such as that used in VELA and the proposed CLARA light source test facility. The samples grown on Si substrates were used to investigate the morphology and thickness of the film. The samples grown onto Cu and Mo substrates were analysed and tested as photocathodes in a surface characterisation chamber, where X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy was employed to determine surface chemistry and a Kelvin probe apparatus used to determine work function. QE measurements were enabled using a 266 nm UV laser.
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THPOW016	Transverse Energy Spread Measurements from GaAs Photocathodes at Variable Wavelengths	3964
	T.C.Q. Noakes, R. Beech, L.B. Jones, B.L. Militsyn STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom H.E. Scheibler, A.S. Terekhov ISP, Novosibirsk, Russia
	The transverse energy spread spectrometer (TESS) is an instrument specially developed at Daresbury Laboratory to measure the intrinsic transverse and longitudinal energy distributions from photocathode materials. Early work on the instrument has focussed on its use for the characterisation of GaAs photocathodes such as those commonly used in DC photoinjectors. More recently work has been conducted to extend the range of materials which can be evaluated using this apparatus, in particular by incorporating a monochromated white light source. New results are presented using the white light source to measure the energy spread of a GaAs photocathode across a range of different wavelengths to evaluate how this changes with excess energy.
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THPOW017	VELA Photoinjector Cavity RF Investigations	3968
	L.S. Cowie, B.L. Militsyn STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom G. Burt Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom J.A. Mitchell Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom M.D. Roper STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	One of two ALPHA-X photocathode gun cavities, designed and fabricated at the Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, has been in operation on the VELA electron accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory since first beam in April 2013. In this time the maximum beam momentum recorded is 5.06 MeV/c. An investigation of the cavity has been performed with the aim of reconciling the expected momentum of over 6 MeV/c with the measured momentum. RF and beam simulation results are presented along with low power RF measurements of the cavity. One source of momentum loss, the flatness of the cathode face, is identified and rectified.
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THPOW018	Simulations of Field Emitted Dark Current Dynamics in DC Photoinjectors	3971
	P.J. Tipping, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Field emission is a concern in injectors with DC photoelectron guns because of the constant generation of dark current, which is accelerated down the beam line and can deteriorate the photoemitted bunch quality and lead to hardware damage. Simulations were carried out on the co-propagation of a field emitted, dark current halo and a photoemitted bunch in a typical 350 kV gun as used in an ERL or FEL injector, followed by a single cell buncher cavity. The photoemitted bunch repelled the halo longitudinally, leaving the area in the centre of the bunch with very low dark current, surrounded by two peaks of relatively high current at the front and back of the bunch. The peaks in current occur at all levels of dark current and were about 3.5 times the amplitude of the undisturbed dark current. The buncher caused the dark current to overcompress, forming a 'ghost' pulse an order of magnitude larger than the initial level of dark current, in front of the photoemitted bunch.
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THPOW019	Beam Characterisation and Machine Developments at VELA	3975
	D. Angal-Kalinin, A.D. Brynes, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, B.D. Muratori, T.C.Q. Noakes, M.D. Roper, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, R.J. Smith, E.W. Snedden, P.H. Williams STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom S.D. Barrett, C.P. Topping, A. Wolski The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom C.S. Edmonds, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.D. Muratori, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, C.P. Topping, P.H. Williams, A. Wolski Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	An overview is presented of developments on VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator), an RF photo-injector with two user stations at Daresbury Laboratory. Numerous commissioning, machine development, beam characterisation and user experiments have been completed in the past year. A new beamline and a dedicated multiuser station have been commissioned and the first experiments performed. A number of measures have been taken to improve the stability of machine by mitigating a phase drift, laser beam transport drift and a coherent ~1 Hz beam oscillation. The 6D phase space of the electron beam has been characterised through quad scans, transverse tomography and with a transverse deflecting cavity.
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Bunch Length Measurements using a Transverse Deflecting Cavity on VELA

323

J.W. McKenzie, S.R. Buckley, L.S. Cowie, P. Goudket, M. Jenkins, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss, A.E. Wheelhouse
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
G. Burt
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
A. Wolski
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The VELA facility at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK includes a 5 MeV/c 2.5 cell S-band photoinjector gun. This gun operates in the "blow-out" regime with a sub-200 fs length drive laser: the resulting bunch length is determined by space-charge effects. We present measurements made with an S-band transverse deflecting cavity to characterise the bunch length as a function of charge, and as a function of the gun operating phase.

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MOPOW037

Developments in the CLARA FEL Test Facility Accelerator Design and Simulations

797

P.H. Williams, D. Angal-Kalinin, A.D. Brynes, J.A. Clarke, F. Jackson, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, N. Thompson
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
R.B. Appleby
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
B. Kyle
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

We present recent developments in the accelerator design of CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications), the proposed UK FEL test facility at Daresbury Laboratory. In order to prioritise FEL schemes requiring the shortest electron bunches, the layout has changed significantly to enable compression at higher energy. Four proposed modes of operation are defined and tracked from cathode to FEL using ASTRA. Supplementing these baseline mode definitions with CSR-enabled codes (such as CSRTRACK) where appropriate is in progress. The FEL layout is re-optimised to include shorter undulators with delay chicanes between each radiator.

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THPMY017

A Comparison of Surface Properties of Metallic Thin Film Photocathodes

3691

S. Mistry, M.D. Cropper
Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
A.N. Hannah, L.B. Jones, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, T.C.Q. Noakes, R. Valizadeh
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

In this work physical vapour deposition magnetron sputtering has been employed to deposit metallic thin films onto Cu, Mo and Si substrates. The use of metallic thin films offers several advantages: (i) metal photocathodes present a fast response time and a relative insensitivity to the vacuum environment (ii) metallic thin films when prepared and transferred in vacuum can offer smoother and cleaner cathode surfaces. The photocathodes developed here will ultimately be used to drive NCRF guns such as that used in VELA and the proposed CLARA light source test facility. The samples grown on Si substrates were used to investigate the morphology and thickness of the film. The samples grown onto Cu and Mo substrates were analysed and tested as photocathodes in a surface characterisation chamber, where X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy was employed to determine surface chemistry and a Kelvin probe apparatus used to determine work function. QE measurements were enabled using a 266 nm UV laser.

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THPOW016

Transverse Energy Spread Measurements from GaAs Photocathodes at Variable Wavelengths

3964

T.C.Q. Noakes, R. Beech, L.B. Jones, B.L. Militsyn
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
H.E. Scheibler, A.S. Terekhov
ISP, Novosibirsk, Russia

The transverse energy spread spectrometer (TESS) is an instrument specially developed at Daresbury Laboratory to measure the intrinsic transverse and longitudinal energy distributions from photocathode materials. Early work on the instrument has focussed on its use for the characterisation of GaAs photocathodes such as those commonly used in DC photoinjectors. More recently work has been conducted to extend the range of materials which can be evaluated using this apparatus, in particular by incorporating a monochromated white light source. New results are presented using the white light source to measure the energy spread of a GaAs photocathode across a range of different wavelengths to evaluate how this changes with excess energy.

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THPOW017

VELA Photoinjector Cavity RF Investigations

3968

L.S. Cowie, B.L. Militsyn
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
G. Burt
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
J.A. Mitchell
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
M.D. Roper
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

One of two ALPHA-X photocathode gun cavities, designed and fabricated at the Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, has been in operation on the VELA electron accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory since first beam in April 2013. In this time the maximum beam momentum recorded is 5.06 MeV/c. An investigation of the cavity has been performed with the aim of reconciling the expected momentum of over 6 MeV/c with the measured momentum. RF and beam simulation results are presented along with low power RF measurements of the cavity. One source of momentum loss, the flatness of the cathode face, is identified and rectified.

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THPOW018

Simulations of Field Emitted Dark Current Dynamics in DC Photoinjectors

3971

P.J. Tipping, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Field emission is a concern in injectors with DC photoelectron guns because of the constant generation of dark current, which is accelerated down the beam line and can deteriorate the photoemitted bunch quality and lead to hardware damage. Simulations were carried out on the co-propagation of a field emitted, dark current halo and a photoemitted bunch in a typical 350 kV gun as used in an ERL or FEL injector, followed by a single cell buncher cavity. The photoemitted bunch repelled the halo longitudinally, leaving the area in the centre of the bunch with very low dark current, surrounded by two peaks of relatively high current at the front and back of the bunch. The peaks in current occur at all levels of dark current and were about 3.5 times the amplitude of the undisturbed dark current. The buncher caused the dark current to overcompress, forming a 'ghost' pulse an order of magnitude larger than the initial level of dark current, in front of the photoemitted bunch.

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THPOW019

Beam Characterisation and Machine Developments at VELA

3975

D. Angal-Kalinin, A.D. Brynes, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.L. Militsyn, B.D. Muratori, T.C.Q. Noakes, M.D. Roper, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, R.J. Smith, E.W. Snedden, P.H. Williams
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
S.D. Barrett, C.P. Topping, A. Wolski
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
C.S. Edmonds, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, J.W. McKenzie, B.D. Muratori, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, C.P. Topping, P.H. Williams, A. Wolski
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

An overview is presented of developments on VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator), an RF photo-injector with two user stations at Daresbury Laboratory. Numerous commissioning, machine development, beam characterisation and user experiments have been completed in the past year. A new beamline and a dedicated multiuser station have been commissioned and the first experiments performed. A number of measures have been taken to improve the stability of machine by mitigating a phase drift, laser beam transport drift and a coherent ~1 Hz beam oscillation. The 6D phase space of the electron beam has been characterised through quad scans, transverse tomography and with a transverse deflecting cavity.

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