Author: Tan, W.H.
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WEPAB163 An X-Band Ultra-High Gradient Photoinjector 2986
 
  • S.V. Kuzikov, S.P. Antipov, P.V. Avrakhov, E. Dosov, C.-J. Jing, E.W. Knight
    Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
  • G. Ha, C.-J. Jing, W. Liu, P. Piot, J.G. Power, D.S. Scott, J.H. Shao, E.E. Wisniewski
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
  • C.-J. Jing
    Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
  • X. Lu
    MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • X. Lu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • P. Piot
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • P. Piot, W.H. Tan
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • E.E. Wisniewski
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by DoE SBIR grant # DE-SC0018709.
High brightness beams appealing for XFELs and UEM essentially imply a high current and a low emittance. To obtain such beams we propose to raise the accelerating voltage in the gun mitigating repealing Coulomb forces. An ultra-high gradient is achieved utilizing a short-pulse technology. We have designed a room temperature X-band 1,5 cell gun that is able to inject 4 MeV, 100 pC bunches with as low as 0.15 mcm normalized transverse emittance. The gun is operated with as high gradients as 400 MV/m and fed by 200 MW, 10 ns RF pulses generated with Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) power extractor. We report results of low RF power tests, laser alignment test results, and successful gun conditioning results carried out at nominal RF power.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB163  
About • paper received ※ 18 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 02 June 2021       issue date ※ 19 August 2021  
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THPAB129 Beam Dynamics Simulations in a High-Gradient X-Band Photoinjector 4013
 
  • W.H. Tan, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • G. Chen, S.V. Kuzikov
    Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
  • G. Chen
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • G. Ha, C.-J. Jing
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
  • C.-J. Jing
    Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
 
  A high-gradient X-band (11.7-GHz) photoinjector was recently developed by Euclid Techlabs and is in its commissioning phase at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA). This contribution discuss the beam-dynamics modeling of the photoinjector system comprising an RF gun and linac section. We especially discuss beam-dynamics optimization of setup for an integrated proof-of-principle experiments. We also discuss the use of such a photoinjector as a witness-bunch source for a future high-gradient collinear-wakefield accelerator experiments at the AWA.
* S. V. Kuzikov, et al. these proceedings.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THPAB129  
About • paper received ※ 20 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 14 July 2021       issue date ※ 31 August 2021  
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THPAB331 High-Power Test of a Highly Over-Coupled X-Band RF Gun Driven by Short RF Pulses 4432
 
  • J.H. Shao, D.S. Doran, W. Liu, J.G. Power, C. Whiteford, E.E. Wisniewski
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
  • C.-J. Jing, S.V. Kuzikov
    Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
  • X. Lu, P. Piot, W.H. Tan
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  Beam brightness, a key figure of merit of RF photocathode guns, can be improved by increasing the cathode surface field which suppresses emittance growth from space charge. The surface field in normal-conducting structures is mainly limited by RF breakdown and it has been experimentally discovered that RF breakdown rate exponentially depends on RF pulse length. A highly over-coupled 1.5-cell X-band photocathode gun has been developed to be powered by 9 ns RF pulses with 3 ns rising time, 3 ns flat-top, and 3 ns falling time generated by an X-band metallic power extractor. In the recent experiment at Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility, cathode surface field up to ~350 MV/m with a low breakdown rate has been obtained under ~250 MW input power. Strong beam loading from dark current was observed during RF conditioning and quickly recovered to a negligible level after the gun reached the maximum gradient. Detailed high-power test results and data analysis will be reported in this manuscript.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THPAB331  
About • paper received ※ 25 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 14 July 2021       issue date ※ 23 August 2021  
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