• S. P. Virostek, M. A. Green, D. Li, M. S. Zisman
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling in a short section of a realistic cooling channel using a muon beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK. A five-coil, superconducting spectrometer solenoid magnet at each end of the cooling channel will provide a 4 T uniform field region for the scintillating fiber tracker within the magnet bore tubes. The tracker modules are used to measure the muon beam emittance as it enters and exits the cooling channel. The cold mass for the 400 mm warm bore magnet consists of two sections: a three-coil spectrometer magnet and a two-coil matching section that matches the uniform field of the solenoid into the MICE cooling channel. The detailed design and analysis of the two spectrometer solenoids has been completed, and the fabrication of the magnets is in its final stages. The primary features of the spectrometer solenoid magnetic and mechanical designs are presented along with a summary of key fabrication issues and photos of the fabrication process.

• M. A. Green, S. P. Virostek
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• X. L. Guo, G. Han, L. Jia, L. K. Li, S. Y. Li, C. S. Liu, X. K. Liu, L. Wang, H. Wu, F. Y. Xu
  ICST, Harbin

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling in a short section of a realistic cooling channel using a muon beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK. The MICE RF and Coupling Coil Module comprises a superconducting solenoid mounted around four normal conducting 201.25-MHz RF cavities. Each cavity has a pair of thin curved beryllium windows to close the conventional open beam irises. The coil package that surrounds the RF cavities is to be mounted on the outside of a 1.4 m diameter vacuum vessel. The coupling coil confines the beam in the cavity module and, in particular, within the radius of the cavity beam windows. The two MICE coupling solenoids will be operated in series using a 300 A, 10 V power supply. The maximum longitudinal force that will be carried by the cold mass support system is 0.5 MN during the expected operating and failure modes of the experiment. The detailed design and analysis of the two coupling coils has been completed, and the fabrication of the magnets is under way. The primary magnetic and mechanical design features of the coils are presented along with a summary of key fabrication issues.

• J. Bisognano, R. A. Bosch, M. A. Green, H. Hoechst, K. Jacobs, K. J. Kleman, R. A. Legg, R. Reininger, R. Wehlitz
  UW-Madison/SRC, Madison, Wisconsin
• J. Chen, W. Graves, F. X. Kaertner, J. Kim, D. E. Moncton
  MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and its partners are developing a design for an FEL operating in the UV to soft x-ray range that will be proposed as a new multidisciplinary user facility. Key features of this facility include seeded, fully coherent output with tunable photon energy and polarization over the range 5 eV to 1240 eV, and simultaneous, independent operation of multiple beamlines. The different beamlines will support a wide range of science from femto-chemistry requiring ultrashort pulses with kHz repetition rates to photoemission and spectroscopy requiring high average flux and narrow bandwidth at MHz rates. The facility will take advantage of the flexibility, stability, and high average pulse rates available from a CW superconducting linac driven by a photoinjector. This unique facility is expected to enable new science through ultra-high resolution in the time and frequency domains, as well as coherent imaging and nano-fabrication. This project is being developed through collaboration between the UW Synchrotron Radiation Center and MIT. We present an overview of the facility, including the motivating science, and its laser, accelerator, and experimental systems.

• J. Bisognano, R. A. Bosch, M. A. Green, K. Jacobs, K. J. Kleman, R. A. Legg
  UW-Madison/SRC, Madison, Wisconsin
• J. Chen, W. Graves, F. X. Kaertner, J. Kim
  MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

We present an initial design of the driver for the Wisconsin VUV/Soft Xray FEL facility, which will provide high intensity coherent photons from 5 eV to 1.2 keV. It uses a 2.5 GeV, L-band CW superconducting linac with a 1.7 GeV tap-off to feed the lower energy FELs. In order to support multiple high rep-rate FELs, the average design current is 1 mA. Sub-nanocoulomb bunches with normalized transverse emittances of order 1 micron are generated in a photoinjector for beamlines operating at repetition rates from kHz to MHz. Multi-stage bunch compression provides 1 kA peak current to the FELs, with low energy spread and a suitable current profile. Compressed bunch lengths of several hundred femtoseconds will allow generation of photon pulses in the range 10 to 100 fs using cascaded FELs. Consideration has been given to removing the residual energy chirp from the beam, and minimizing the effects of space charge, coherent synchrotron radiation, and microbunching instabilities. A beam switchyard using RF separators and fast kickers delivers the desired electron bunches to each of the FELs. Details of the design will be presented, including those areas requiring the most development work.

• K. Jacobs, J. Bisognano, R. A. Bosch, D. Eisert, M. V. Fisher, M. A. Green, R. G. Keil, K. J. Kleman, R. A. Legg, G. C. Rogers, J. P. Stott
  UW-Madison/SRC, Madison, Wisconsin

Aladdin is an IR to soft x-ray synchrotron light source operated by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. As part of the ongoing program of upgrades and improvements, several changes have recently been made to the ring. It had previously been determined that physical apertures (BPMs) at the QF quadrupoles were limiting beam lifetime when the ring was operated in its low emittance configuration. Increasing the size of these apertures has resulted in a significant increase in lifetime. Also as part of the aperture opening process, a number of ring components were redesigned and replaced, lowering the ring impedance. This has led to an increase in the threshold beam current for microwave instability. Another modification was the design and installation of discrete trim coils on the quadrupole pole-tips to facilitate using the quads as steering correctors. Details of these and other improvements will be presented.