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- X. Li, Z. Aboulbanine, G.D. Adhikari, N. Aftab, Z.G. Amirkhanyan, P. Boonpornprasert, M.E. Castro Carballo, N. Chaisueb, G.Z. Georgiev, J. Good, M. Groß, C. Koschitzki, M. Krasilnikov, O. Lishilin, A. Lueangaramwong, D. Melkumyan, R. Niemczyk, A. Oppelt, H.J. Qian, G. Shu, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, T. Weilbach
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
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The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ) is developing a THz SASE FEL as a prototype high repetition rate accelerator-based source for the THz-pumped, X-ray-probed experiments at the European XFEL. For the generation of THz pulses of mJ-level energy from SASE, an electron beam with a high charge (up to 4 nC) and high peak current (~200 A) will be injected into an LCLS-I undulator, which is currently being installed at the end of the photo-injector. The narrow vacuum chamber (11x5 mm) between the magnetic poles and the strong vertical focusing from the undulator, as well as the lack of beam diagnostics, have made it a challenge to match the space-charge dominated beam into the undulator without beam loss during the following transport. In this paper, boundary conditions of a matched electron beam will be discussed and the simulation and experimental study on our matching strategy will be presented.
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