Author: Kankiya, P.
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MOPP012 Beam Commissioning of the SRF 704 MHz Photoemission Gun 70
 
  • W. Xu, S.A. Belomestnykh, I. Ben-Zvi, D.M. Gassner, H. Hahn, J.P. Jamilkowski, P. Kankiya, D. Kayran, N. Laloudakis, R.F. Lambiase, G.T. McIntyre, D. Phillips, V. Ptitsyn, K.S. Smith, R. Than, D. Weiss, A. Zaltsman
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • S.A. Belomestnykh, I. Ben-Zvi, V. Ptitsyn
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • D. Holmes
    AES, Medford, New York, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. DOE.
A 704 MHz superconducting RF photoemission electron gun for the R&D ERL project is under comissioning at BNL. Without a cathode insert, the SRF gun achieved its design goal: an accelerating voltage of 2 MV in CW mode. During commissioning with a copper cathode insert it reached 1.9 MV with 18% duty factor, which is limited by mulitpacting in a choke-joint cathode stalk. A new cathode stalk has been designed to eliminate multipacting in the choke-joint. This paper presents recent commissioning results, including cavity commissioning without the cathode stalk insert, first beam commissioning of the SRF gun in pulsed regime, and the design of a multipacting-free cathode stalk.