Author: Fry, A.R.
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TUPIK121 Dark Sector Experiments at LCLS-II (DASEL) Accelerator Design 2008
 
  • Y.M. Nosochkov, T.G. Beukers, A.R. Fry, C. Hast, T.W. Markiewicz, T.K. Nelson, N. Phinney, T.O. Raubenheimer, P.C. Schuster, N. Toro
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the US DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
DASEL (Dark Sector Experiments at LCLS-II) is a new accelerator and detector facility proposed to be built at SLAC. Its primary target is a direct observation of dark matter produced in electron-nuclear fixed-target collisions. DASEL takes advantage of the LCLS-II free electron laser (FEL) under construction at SLAC which will deliver a continuous electron beam from a 4-GeV superconducting linac. DASEL will operate parasitically to the LCLS-II FEL by extracting low intensity unused dark current bunches downstream of the FEL kickers. The DASEL key accelerator components include a 46-MHz gun laser system providing controlled intensity and timing of the dark current, a fast (MHz) kicker with 600-ns flat-top, a new transport line connecting the LCLS-II to the existing A-line and to End Station-A where the experiments will take place, and a spoiler and collimator system in the A-line for final shaping of the DASEL beam. An overview of the DASEL accelerator system is presented.
 
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WEPAB116 LCLS Injector Laser Shaping and Applications 2844
 
  • S. Li, S.C. Alverson, D.K. Bohler, A.B. Egger, A.R. Fry, S. Gilevich, Z. Huang, A. Miahnahri, D.F. Ratner, J. Robinson, F. Zhou
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  In the Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC, the injector laser plays an important role as the source of the electron beam for the Free Electron Laser (FEL). The beam emittance and FEL performance are highly related to the transverse shape of the injector laser. When the injector laser has hot spots and non-uniformities that can carry over to the electron beam and degrade electron emittance and FEL performance, it requires long hours of manual adjustment by laser engineers and strenuous machine tuneup. The injector laser shaping project at LCLS aims to have precise control of the driver laser transverse profile in order to produce arbitrary electron beam profiles, which will enable us to study effects of laser shape on beam emittance and FEL performances. We use a digital micromirror device (DMD) to manipulate the drive laser profile. In this paper, we briefly discuss the implementations of laser shaping at LCLS. We demonstrate two applications of laser shaping. We present results of using laser shaping to control the X-ray laser output via an online optimizer. We also show the photocathode quantum efficiency measurements across cathode surface using the DMD.  
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