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| TUPRB086 | Four X-ray Pulses within 10 ns at LCLS | 1859 |
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| The X-Ray FEL at SLAC or LCLS delivers typically one bunch at the time. Different schemes of two bunches have been developed: Two bucket, Twin bunch, split undulator, and fresh slice. Here we discuss a four bunch or even eight bunch setup, separated by 2 RF buckets or 0.7 ns. . The demand comes from MEC (Matter in Extreme Conditions) experiments, where high-power laser beams with Joule-class energies create impulsive pressure waves compressing materials on time scales of the order of ns. Eight snapshots for a single experiment will allow measuring the compression history, structural phase transitions into new high-pressure material states, and have the potential to resolve the transition kinetics time scales. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-TUPRB086 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 30 April 2019 paper accepted ※ 22 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| TUPRB088 | Generation of High Peak Power Hard X-Rays at LCLS-II with Double Bunch Self-seeding | 1863 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. We propose to use existing LCLS copper S-band linac double bunch infrastructure to significantly improve LCLS-II hard X-ray performance. In our setup, we use the first bunch to generate a strong seeding X-ray signal, and the second bunch, initially traveling off-axis, to interact with the seed in the amplifier undulator and generate a near TW, 15 fs duration X-ray pulse in the 4 to 8 keV photon energy range. We investigate, via numerical simulations, the required transverse beam dynamics and the four crystals X-ray monochromator to be added to the existing LCLS-II beamline and discuss the final properties of the hard X-ray pulses and their potential application in high intensity, high-field physics experiments, including QED above the Schwinger critical field. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-TUPRB088 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 13 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 22 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| TUPRB096 | Test of an X-ray Cavity using Double-Bunches from the LCLS Cu-Linac | 1887 |
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Funding: This work is supported by U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of BES, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (ANL) and DE-AC02-76SF00515 (SLAC). We discuss a proposal to test the operation of an X-ray cavity consisting of Bragg reflectors. The test will con-stitute a major step demonstrating the feasibility of either an X-ray regenerative amplifier FEL or an X-ray FEL Oscillator. These cavity-based X-ray FELs will provide the full temporal coherence lacking in the SA-SE FELs. An X-ray cavity of rectangular path will be constructed around the first seven LCLS-II undulator units. The Cu-linac will produce a pair of electron bunches separated by the cavity-round-trip distance during each linac cycle. The X-ray pulse produced by the first bunch is deflected into the cavity and returns to the undulator where it is amplified due to the presence of the second bunch. The key challenges are: the preci-sion of the cavity mechanical construction, the quality of the diamond crystals, and the electron beam stability. When the LCLS-II super-conducting linac becomes available, the cavity can then be used for high-repetition rate studies of the X-ray RAFEL and XFELO concepts. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-TUPRB096 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 15 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 22 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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