Author: Nause, A.
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MOPOMS052 6 MeV Novel Hybrid (Standing Wave - Traveling Wave) Photo-Cathode Electron Gun for a THz Superradiant FEL 760
 
  • A. Nause, L. Feigin, A. Friedman, A. Weinberg
    Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
  • A. Fukasawa, J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • B. Spataro
    LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy
 
  A novel 6 MeV hybrid photo injector was designed and commissioned at Ariel University in Israel as an on-going collaboration with UCLA. This unique, new generation design provides a radically simpler approach to RF feeding of a gun/buncher system, leading to a much shorter beam via velocity bunching owed to an attached traveling wave section of the photo-injector. This design results in better performance in beam parameters, providing a high quality electron beam, with energy of 6 MeV, emittance of less than 3 ’m, and a 150 fs pulse duration at up to 1 nC per pulse. The Hybrid gun is driven by a SLAC XK5 Klystron as the high power RF source, and third harmonic of a fs level IR Laser amplifier (266 nm) to extract electrons from the Cathode. The unique e-gun will produce a bunched electron pulse to drive a THz FEL, which will operate at the super-radiance regime, and therefore requires extraordinary beam properties. It will also be used for MeV UED experiments in a separate line using a dogleg section. Here we describe the gun and presents experimental results from the gun and its sub-systems, including energy and charge measurements, compared with the design simulations.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOMS052  
About • Received ※ 11 June 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 18 June 2022
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