Author: Shibasaki, Y.
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THPP136 Study of Femtosecond Electron Bunch Generation at t-ACTS, Tohoku University 1178
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  • S. Kashiwagi, H. Hama, F. Hinode, A. Lueangaramwong, T. Muto, I. Nagasawa, S. Nagasawa, K. Nanbu, Y. Shibasaki, K. Takahashi, C. Tokoku
    Tohoku University, Research Center for Electron Photon Science, Sendai, Japan
  • N.Y. Huang
    NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
 
  We are conducting a beam experiment of sub-picosecond electron bunch generation at a test accelerator as a coherent terahertz source (t-ACTS), Tohoku University. In the t-ACTS, the intense coherent terahertz radiation will be generated from an undulator and an isochronous accumulator ring based on the sub-picoseconds bunches. The accelerator is composed of a thermionic cathode rf gun, alpha magnet and 3 m-long accelerating structure. A velocity bunching scheme in accelerating structure is applied to generate the short electron bunch. The thermionic rf gun consists two independent cavities has been developed, which is capable of manipulating the beam longitudinal phase space. To produced femtosecond electron bunch, the longitudinal phase space distribution of the beam entering the accelerating structure is optimized by changing the rf gun parameters. The bunch length is measured by observing an optical tradition radiation with a streak camera. In the study of femtosecond electron bunch generation, a relation between the rf gun parameters and the bunch length after compression was investigated. The preliminary results of experiments will be described in this conference.