IPAC2022 - List of Authors (Nuhn, H.-D.)

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TUPOMS052	Considerations From Deploying, Commissioning, and Maintaining the Control System for LCLS-II Undulators	1546
	M.A. Montironi, C.J. Andrews, G. Marcus, H.-D. Nuhn SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This work was supported by Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 Two new undulator lines have been installed as part of the Linac Coherent Light Source upgrade (LCLSII) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. One undulator line, composed of 21 horizontally polarizing undulator segments, is dedicated to producing Soft X-Rays (SXR). The other line, composed of 32 vertically polarizing undulator segments, is dedicated to producing Hard X-Rays (HXR). The devices were installed, and the control system was deployed in 2019. Commissioning culminated with the achievement of first light from the HXR undulator in the Summer of 2020 and from the SXR undulator in the Fall of 2020. Since then, both undulator lines have been successfully providing x-Rays to user experiments with very limited downtime. In this paper, we first describe the strategies utilized to simplify the deployment, commissioning, and maintenance of the control system. Such strategies include scripts for automated components calibration and monitoring, a modular software structure, and debugging manuals for accelerator operators. Then, we discuss lessons learned which could be applicable to similar projects in the future.
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About •	Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 26 June 2022
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TUPOMS053	Start-to-End Simulations of the LCLS-II HE Free Electron Laser	1549
	D.B. Cesar, G. Marcus, H.-D. Nuhn, T.O. Raubenheimer SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA J. Qiang LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	Funding: This work is supported in part by DOE Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 In this proceeding we present start-to-end simulations of the LCLS-II-HE free electron laser. The HE project will extend the LCLS-II superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) linac from 4 GeV to 8 GeV in order to produce hard x-rays from the eponymous hard x-ray undulators (26 mm period). At the same time, soft x-ray performance is preserved (and extended into the tender regime) by using longer period undulators (56 mm period) than were originally built for LCLS-II (39 mm period). Here we use high-fidelity numerical particle simulations to study the performance of several SASE beamline configurations, and compare the resulting x-ray energy, power, duration, and transverse properties. Using the LCLS-II normal-conducting gun, we find that the x-ray pulse energy drops off rapidly above ~15 keV, while using the lower emittance beam from a proposed SRF gun, we improve the cutoff to ~20 keV.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOMS053
About •	Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 21 June 2022
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Considerations From Deploying, Commissioning, and Maintaining the Control System for LCLS-II Undulators

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M.A. Montironi, C.J. Andrews, G. Marcus, H.-D. Nuhn
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This work was supported by Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
Two new undulator lines have been installed as part of the Linac Coherent Light Source upgrade (LCLSII) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. One undulator line, composed of 21 horizontally polarizing undulator segments, is dedicated to producing Soft X-Rays (SXR). The other line, composed of 32 vertically polarizing undulator segments, is dedicated to producing Hard X-Rays (HXR). The devices were installed, and the control system was deployed in 2019. Commissioning culminated with the achievement of first light from the HXR undulator in the Summer of 2020 and from the SXR undulator in the Fall of 2020. Since then, both undulator lines have been successfully providing x-Rays to user experiments with very limited downtime. In this paper, we first describe the strategies utilized to simplify the deployment, commissioning, and maintenance of the control system. Such strategies include scripts for automated components calibration and monitoring, a modular software structure, and debugging manuals for accelerator operators. Then, we discuss lessons learned which could be applicable to similar projects in the future.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOMS052

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Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 26 June 2022

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TUPOMS053

Start-to-End Simulations of the LCLS-II HE Free Electron Laser

1549

D.B. Cesar, G. Marcus, H.-D. Nuhn, T.O. Raubenheimer
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
J. Qiang
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

Funding: This work is supported in part by DOE Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515
In this proceeding we present start-to-end simulations of the LCLS-II-HE free electron laser. The HE project will extend the LCLS-II superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) linac from 4 GeV to 8 GeV in order to produce hard x-rays from the eponymous hard x-ray undulators (26 mm period). At the same time, soft x-ray performance is preserved (and extended into the tender regime) by using longer period undulators (56 mm period) than were originally built for LCLS-II (39 mm period). Here we use high-fidelity numerical particle simulations to study the performance of several SASE beamline configurations, and compare the resulting x-ray energy, power, duration, and transverse properties. Using the LCLS-II normal-conducting gun, we find that the x-ray pulse energy drops off rapidly above ~15 keV, while using the lower emittance beam from a proposed SRF gun, we improve the cutoff to ~20 keV.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOMS053

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Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 21 June 2022

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