Author: Johnson, M.J.
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MOPIK019 Upgrade Options Towards Higher Fields and Beam Energies for Continuous-Wave Room-Temperature VHF RF Guns 542
 
  • F. Sannibale, J.M. Byrd, D. Filippetto, M.J. Johnson, D. Li, T.H. Luo, C.E. Mitchell, J.W. Staples, S.P. Virostek
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the Director of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract no. DEAC02-05CH11231
Science demand for MHz-class repetition rate electron beam applications such as free electron lasers (FELs), inverse Compton scattering sources, and ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy (UED/UEM), pushed the development of new gun schemes that could generate high brightness beams at such high rates. At the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBNL), we proposed a new concept room-temperature RF gun resonating in the VHF frequency range (30-300 MHz) capable of operating in continuous wave mode at the fields required for high-brightness performance. A first VHF-Gun was constructed and tested in the APEX facility at LBNL, which successfully demonstrated all design parameters and the generation of high brightness electron beams. A second version of the APEX VHF-Gun is being built at LBNL for the LCLS-II, the new SLAC X-ray FEL. Recent studies showed that a proposed LCLS-II upgrade and UED/UEM applications would greatly benefit from an increased gun brightness obtained by raising the electric field at the cathode and the beam energy at the gun exit. In this paper, we present and discuss possible upgrade options that would allow extension of the VHF-Gun performance towards these new goals.
 
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WEPAB099 Development of the Manufacturing and QA Processes for the LCLS-II Injector Source VHF Electron Gun 2815
 
  • J.A. Doyle, J.N. Corlett, M.J. Johnson, R. Kraft, T.D. Kramasz, D. Leitner, S.P. Virostek
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: * This work is supported by the Office of Science, United States Department of Energy under DOE contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The Linear Coherent Light Source-II (LCLS-II), a new free electron laser currently under construction at SLAC, requires a high repetition rate, high brightness, continuous wave electron source. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has developed a design for a normal conducting VHF gun in response to that need and is responsible for its production and that of the associated beamline, with much of the fabrication done in-house. The 186 MHz copper cavity dissipates approximately 90 kW of RF power while maintaining a vacuum pressure on the order of 10-10 Torr. The gun is a critical component that requires a very high level of operational reliability to ensure uninterrupted availability for future system users. A quality assurance system to instruct manufacturing and change control is vital to ensure production of a gun that reliably meets physics requirements over an extended period of usage. This paper describes the QA processes developed for fabrication and assembly of the Injector Source electron gun along with results and lessons learned from their current implementation.
 
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