SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser was commissioned on 10 April 2009. The facility has begun operating for atomic/molecular/optical science experiments. Commissioning results have been presented*. Performance of the facility in its first user run (1 October - 21 December) and current machine development activities will be presented.
*P. Emma, et al., "Lasing and saturation of the LCLS and future development", Proceedings of the 2009 Free Electron Laser Conference, 23-28 August 2009, Liverpool, UK
NSRRC, Hsinchu
An in-vacuum undulator with a room-temperature permanent magnet and a superconducting wiggler has become a mature technology and is widely used; it can adopt a short-period length in a medium-energy facility to provide an enhanced photon flux in the hard x-ray region. A cryogenic permanent magnet is applicable for an in-vacuum undulator to enhance the remanence field (Br) and the coercivity force. In future, a cryogenic permanent-magnet undulator and a superconducting wiggler will become mainstream to fulfill a user's requirement of a discrete and a continuous spectrum, respectively, but superconducting technology with HTS wires will have the best potential for the development of insertion devices after the next decade. HTS bulk magnets with magnet flux density 17 T are applicable even for a superconducting undulator; such an undulator can decrease the period length to about 10 mm. A small magnet gap with an extremely- short-period length (about 5 mm) has been studied with a stacked-layer of thin HTS tapes for a superconducting undulator. This report is a review to describe the current and future developments of insertion devices for a medium-energy storage ring and FEL facility.
ESRF, Grenoble
IPN, Orsay
LPSC, Grenoble
GANIL, Caen
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
SDMS, Saint Romans
LAL, Orsay
The French Physics Society is an association the purpose of which is to promote physics and physicists. In this context, the accelerator physics and associated technology division is in charge of the promotion of accelerator activities in France. This paper presents the missions and actions of the division, highlighting those concerning young scientists. A brief presentation of the laboratories, institutes or facilities who are the main actors in the field will then be given. Significant projects which are underway or planned will be described, including medical applications. The major contribution of France to international projects will then be introduced. Finally the cultural and technical relations between industry and laboratories will be discussed.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
A magnet array of superconducting undulator SU15, with 130 poles and length 0.98 m, was constructed, and the field measurement and training are also performed at National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC). The NbTi wires were excited to 1.36 T @ 497 A after 28 times quench. A cryogenic Hall probe (length 2500 mm) was used to characterize the distribution of the magnetic field of magnet arrays in the 5.6-mm magnetic gap. The measurement region of the cryogenic Hall probe is greater than 1200 mm in the vertical dewar. The length shrinkage or expansion of the Hall probe depends on the thermal variation at both ends of the Hall probe. The length of the Hall probe will be evaluated in the field measurement region. The reproducibility of the measurement system was verified in the same experiment. A field shimming method involving a trim iron piece was used to correct for deviations of the magnetic field. This paper discusses the measurement accuracy in the cryogenic Hall probe system and presents results of the field shimming.
Uni HH, Hamburg
PSI, Villigen
Westdeutsches Protonentherapiezentrum, Essen
DESY, Hamburg
sFLASH is a seeded FEL experiment at DESY, which uses a 38nm high harmonic gain (HHG)-based XUV-beam laser in tandem with FLASH electron bunches at the entrance of a 10m variable-gap undulator. The temporal overlap between the electron and HHG beams is critical to the seeding process. Use of a 3rd harmonic accelerating module provides a high current electron beam (at the kA level) with ~ 600fs FWHM bunch duration. The length of the HHG laser pulse will be ~30fs FWHM. The desired overlap is achieved in steps. First is the synchronization of the HHG drive laser (Ti: Sapphire, 800nm) and the incoherent spontaneous radiation from an upstream undulator. Next, the IFEL-modulated electron bunch will pass through a dispersive section, producing a density modulation in the beam. This in turn yields emission of coherent radiation from a downstream undulator or transition radiation screen when the longitudinal overlap of the two beams is achieved. The coherently enhanced light emitted will be then spectrally analyzed. The experimental layout, simulation results of generation and transport of both light pulses, and preliminary measurements are presented.
SINAP, Shanghai
A new beam profile diagnostic system based on industrial Ethernet has been installed in Shanghai Deep Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser (SDUV-FEL) facility recently. By choosing GigE Vision cameras, the system provides better image quality over a long distance than before. Beam images are captured from the beam profile monitors which are controlled by air cylinders or step motors. In order to fit for the system expansibility and curtail the cables, all devices are operated through the Ethernet and distributed along the FEL facility. The approach to the design of the hardware and software will be described in this paper. Applications and experiment results will be shown in this paper as well.
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
On the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the continuous monitoring of the transverse sizes of the beams relies on the use of synchrotron radiation and intensified video cameras. Depending on the beam energy different synchrotron light sources must be used. A dedicated superconducting undulator has been built for low beam energies (450 GeV to 3 TeV), while edge and centre radiation from a beam separation dipole magnet are used respectively for intermediate and high energies (up to 7 TeV). The emitted visible photons are collected using a retractable mirror, which sends the light into an optical system adapted for acquisition using intensified CCD cameras. This paper presents the performance of the imaging system in terms of spatial resolution, and comments on the light intensity obtained and the cross calibration performed with the wire scanners. Upgrades and future plans are also discussed.
PSI, Villigen
DESY, Hamburg
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
IPN, Orsay
The European XFEL is an X-ray free electron laser user facility that is currently being built in Hamburg by an international consortium. The electron BPM system of the XFEL is developed by a collaboration of PSI, DESY, and CEA/Saclay/Irfu. Cavity BPMs will be used in all parts of the E-XFEL where highest resolution and lowest drift is required, e.g. in the undulators and some locations in the beam transfer lines. In the cryostats of the superconducting 17.5GeV main linac, 2/3rds of the BPMs will be buttons, while 1/3rd will be re-entrant cavities that promise higher resolution than buttons at low bunch charges. The transfer lines will also be equipped with cost-efficient button BPMs. The BPM electronics is based on a modular system concept, with a common FPGA-based digital back-end design for all BPMs and pickup-specific analog RF front-ends. This paper introduces the design concepts and reports on the project status and measurement results of BPM pickup and electronics prototypes.
RadiaBeam, Marina del Rey
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
For successful operation and beam characterization, fourth generation light sources require the observation of sub-picosecond bunches with femtosecond resolution. In this paper, we report on the design and development of a novel technique to achieve sub-femtosecond temporal resolution of high brightness bunches. The technique involves the coupling of the electron beam to a high power laser in an undulator field, which is optimized to maximize the angular deviation of the bunch. The beam angular components are imaged on a distant screen yielding a sweep across angles in one dimension. The addition of an x-band deflecting cavity downstream of the undulator creates another sweep of the beam, in the perpendicular dimension. The temporal resolution of the bunch is dependent on the seed laser wavelength and the spatial resolution of the screen. Initial calculations show that for a CO2 laser (T~30fs) and a phosphor screen (~50micron spatial resolution), the longitudinal resolution is approximately l/200 of the laser wavelength, or ~150 attoseconds.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The talk will provide an overview of required feedback systems to guarantee stable and successful SASE operation as well as successful experiments. Recent developments and examples of various systems (including feedbacks for long bunch trains) will be discussed.
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
SASE based X-ray free-electron laser is now under construction at the SPring-8 site. This project is aiming at realization of SASE FEL of 1 angstrom initially and approaches to seeded XFEL in the second stage. For this future extension, a very unique system was adopted, composed of a low emittance SHB-based injector with CeB6 cathode thermionic gun, normal conducting high gradient C-band acceleration system and high performance in-vacuum undulators. This presentation will provide a comprehensive project review and recent project progress.
MEPhI, Moscow
The undulator linear accelerator using electrostatic undulator (UNDULAC-E) is suggested as an initial part of high intensity ion linac*. In UNDULAC ion beam accelerating and focusing are realized by of the combined field of two non-synchronous harmonics. Indeed, the main factor limiting beam intensity in ion accelerator is a space charge force. There exist, at least, two ways to increase ion beam intensity: to enlarge the beam cross section and to use the space charge neutralization. The ribbon ion beam dynamics in UNDULAC-E was discussed in**. Accelerating force value in UNDULAC is proportional to squared particle charge and oppositely charged ions with the identical charge-to-mass ratio can be accelerated simultaneously within the same bunch and the beam space charge neutralization can be realized. These methods will be studied analytically and verified by numerical simulation for UNDULAC-RF in this paper.
*E.S. Masunov, Sov. Phys. ' Tech. Phys., 1990, v. 35 (8), pp. 962-965. **Masunov, S.M. Polozov. NIM A, 558 (2006), pp. 184-187.
RRCAT, Indore (M.P.)
BARC, Mumbai
The injector system for the Compact Ultrafast Terahertz Free Electron Laser (CUTE-FEL) consists of a 1 ns, 90 kV pulsed thermionic electron gun, a 476 MHz sub-harmonic prebuncher, and a standing wave, S-band Plane Wave Transformer (PWT) linac capable of accelerating beam to 10 MeV. Beam from this injector will be transported to the entrance of the undulator through a beam transport line, with the required diagnostic elements, that has been designed, developed and commissioned. The control system and the low and high power microwave lines have also been commissioned. In this paper, we discuss salient features of the injector system and results from recent commissioning trials of the injector.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The effects of microbunching instability for the SPARX accelerator have been analyzed by means of different numerical simulation codes and analytical approach. The laser heater counteracting action has been also addressed in order to optimize the parameters of the compression system, either hybrid RF plus magnetic chicane or only magnetic, and possibly enhance the FEL performance.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
JAI, Oxford
The design of free electron laser (FEL) driver needs careful beam transport design to pass very short bunches through the switchyard/spreader to switch the beam to different FEL lines. The spreader design which allows flexibility in operation has been adapted following the LBNL design*. In order to measure the slice properties of the bunches two beam diagnostics lines are proposed, a straight one for beam commissioning purposes and a branch of the spreader similar to the FEL lines to measure the adverse effects that may arise due to passing the short bunches through the kicker and septum magnets. As a part of machine protection, post linac collimation system collimates the halo particles in transverse and energy planes. The design of the collimation, beam spreader and beam diagnostics lines is discussed.
* Zholents A.A. et al, CBP Tech Note 401, 2009
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The proposed UK New Light Source project will need beam dump to absorb a bunch charge of 200 pC with the repetition rates starting from 1 KHz initially up to 1 MHz in the upgrade. We are exploring an option of a solid dump with a graphite core to absorb the beam power up to 450 kW for the upgrade option as this is the most challenging design. Since the beam dump design will also affect the building layout the choice of its design should be made at an early stage. Based on the feasibility studies of a solid dump, a decision not to go for more complex water dump can be taken. The post linac collimation section should protect the undulators from irradiation due to beam halo particles. This paper shows results and conclusions from simulations of the impact of the NLS beam on different solid beam dump solutions and the effect of the beam halo on the collimators.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
PEP-X, a next generation, ring-based light source is designed to run with beams of high current and low emittance. Important parameters are: energy 4.5 GeV, circumference 2.2 km, beam current 1.5 A, and horizontal and vertical emittances, 150 pm by 8 pm. In such a machine it is important that impedance driven instabilities not degrade the beam quality. In this report we study the strength of the impedance and its effects in PEP-X. For the present, lacking a detailed knowledge of the vacuum chamber shape, we create a straw man design comprising important vacuum chamber objects to be found in the ring, for which we then compute the wake functions. From the wake functions we generate an impedance budget and a pseudo-Green function wake representing the entire ring, which we, in turn, use for performing instability calculations. In this report we consider in PEP-X the microwave, transverse mode-coupling, multi-bunch transverse, and beam-ion instabilities.
CANDLE, Yerevan
DESY, Hamburg
The options for an extremely low bunch charge regime (20 pC) of the European XFEL project are studied. The parameter study (saturation length and power) is performed for a wide range of the beam normalized emittance, bunch length and energy spread. The study is based both on analytical scaling of the SASE FEL performance and numerical simulations.
DESY, Hamburg
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronen-Speicherring BESSY II, Berlin
Uni HH, Hamburg
FLASH has been a user facility since 2005, delivering radiation in the wavelength range between 7 and 47 nm using the SASE principle. In order to increase user beam time and improve the radiation properties delivered to users, a major extension of the user facility called FLASH II has been proposed by DESY in collaboration with the HZB, which is a seeded FEL over the parameter range of FLASH. As logical continuation, the HHG development program started with sFLASH, will result in direct seeding. Because in the foreseeable future there will probably not be HHG seed lasers available at high repetition rates down to wavelengths of 4 nm, a cascaded HGHG scheme will be used to produce short wavelengths. After a first design report, the project now enters its preparation phase until the decision for funding will be taken. During this time, the FLASH beam parameters after the present upgrade 2009/2010 will be characterized and the present design will be re-evaluated and adjusted. In addition, complete start-to-end simulations will complete the simulations which have been performed so far, including a complete design of the extraction area.
DESY, Hamburg
Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena
Uni HH, Hamburg
The performance of fourth generation light sources is of interest in many fields in nature science. Different seeding schemes for FELs are under investigation to improve timing stability, pulse shape and spectrum of the amplified XUV or X-ray pulses. One of the most promising schemes is direct seeding by high-harmonic generation (HHG) in gas. A seeded free electron laser with a tuneable wavelength range from 10 to 40nm and a bunch frequency of up to 100 kHz (1 MHz upgraded), as proposed for FLASH II (collaboration HZB/DESY), makes high demands on the HHG seed source concerning conversion efficiency and stability. However, the most challenging task is the conception of a laser system with a repetition rate of 100 kHz (1 MHz upgraded). The key parameters for this laser amplifier system are pulse energies of 1-2mJ and sub-10fs pulse duration. We report on the development status of the required laser system for the seed source and give an overview of first concepts for the HHG target setup which can comply with the requirements of a new seeded FEL at DESY.
Uni HH, Hamburg
DESY, Hamburg
PSI, Villigen
DELTA, Dortmund
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronen-Speicherring BESSY II, Berlin
Recently, the free-electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH) at DESY has been upgraded considerably. Besides increasing the maximum energy to about 1.2 GeV and installation of a third harmonic rf cavity linearizing the longitudinal phase space distribution of the electron bunch, an FEL seeding experiment at wavelengths of about 35 nm has been installed. The goal is to establish direct FEL seeding employing coherent VUV pulses produced from a powerful drive laser by high-harmonic generation (HHG) in a gas cell. The project, called sFLASH, includes generation of the required HHG pulses, transporting it to the undulator entrance of a newly installed FEL-amplifier, controlling spatial, temporal and energy overlap with the electron bunches and setting up a pump-probe pilot experiment. Sophisticated diagnostics is installed to characterize both HHG and seeded FEL pulses, both in time and frequency domain. Compared to SASE-FEL pulses, almost perfect longitudinal coherence and improved synchronization possibilities for the user experiments are expected. In this paper the status of the experiment is presented.
ELETTRA, Basovizza
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica
The commissioning of the first stage (FEL-1) of FERMI@Elettra has started in the summer 2009. During the first year of operation, the efforts will mainly concentrate on the optimization of the gun performance, as well as on electron-beam acceleration and transport through the LINAC. By fall 2010, it is planned to generate out of the LINAC an electron beam that may be injected into the FEL-1 undulator chain and used to get the first FEL light. In this paper, we present the requirements for FEL-1 commissioning, both in terms of hardware and electron beam properties.
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
The SPARX-FEL project is meant to provide ultra high peak brightness electron beams, with the energy ranging between 1.5 - 2.4 GeV, in order to generate FEL radiation in the 0.6-40 nm range. The construction will start with a 1.5 GeV Linac; besides the basic S-band technology the C-band option is also presently under study. Both RF-compression and magnetic chicane techniques are foreseen to provide the suitable electron beam to each one of the three undulator systems which will generate VUV-EUV, Soft X-Rays and Hard X-rays radiation respectively. Dedicated beamlines will distribute the beam to the downstream undulators for applications in basic science and technology. In this paper we present the status of the project funded by the Italian Department of Research, MIUR, and by the local regional government, Regione Lazio, that foresees the construction of a user facility inside the Tor Vergata campus by collaboration among CNR, ENEA, INFN and the Università di Tor Vergata itself.
Tokyo University of Science, IR FEL Research Center, Chiba
MELCO SC, Tsukuba
KEK, Ibaraki
IR-FEL research center of Tokyo University of Science (FEL-TUS) is a facility for aiming at the development of high performance FEL device and promotion of photo-science using it. The main part of FEL-TUS is a mid-infrared FEL (MIR FEL) which consists of an S-band linac and an undulator combined with an optical resonance cavity. MIR-FEL provides continuously tunable radiation in the range of 5-14 micron and a variety of experiments are by the use of this photon energy corresponding to the various vibrational modes of molecules are now underway. We also develop far-infrared FEL (FIR FEL) installed an RF-gun with Disk-and-Washer accelerating cavity for high quality electron beam. The current status of FEL-TUS will be presented.
Kyoto IAE, Kyoto
A mid-infrared free electron laser (MIR FEL) facility has been constructed for the basic research on energy materials in the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University. The MIR FEL saturation at 13.2 μm was observed in May 2008, and the construction of the FEL delivery system from accelerator room to the optical diagnostic station and experimental stations has been finished in Dec. 2009. In the conference, optical properties of the MIR FEL and research program using MIR-FEL will be introduced.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
An easy-to-implement scheme called Enhanced High Gain Harmonic Generation has been proposed and shown to be able to significantly enhance the performance of traditional HGHG-FEL. In this paper we investigate the effects of the system parameters in EHGHG scheme, such as the electron energy tuning, the energy spread, the dispersive strength, amount of the phase shift, and the power of seed laser. The numerical results are presented, and shown that: the EHGHG scheme has acceptable the parameters tolerance requirements and is not more or even less sensitive to the system parameters than that of the existing scheme.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
JINR/LHE, Moscow
Different methods for diagnostic of ultrashort electron bunches are developed at JINR-DESY collaboration within the framework of the FLASH and XFEL projects. Photon diagnostics developed at JINR-DESY collaboration for ultrashort bunches are based on calorimetric measurements and detection of undulator radiation. The MCP based radiation detectors are effectively used at FLASH for pulse energy measurements. The infrared undulator constructed at JINR and installed at FLASH is used for longitudinal bunch shape measurements and for two-color lasing provided by the FIR and VUV undulators. The JINR also participates in development and construction of Hybrid Pixel Array Detector on the basis of GaAs sensors. The special laser source for the KEK photo-cathode gun is developed within the frame of the JINR-IAP-KEK collaboration.
NTHU, Hsinchu
We study a desktop MW superradiance free-electron laser (FEL) at THz frequencies. By using some nominal beam parameters from a THz-pulse-train electron gun, we show in theory and simulation that 10-MW-level radiation power at THz frequencies is achievable from a meter long undulator in one single electron transit through the undulator. The proposed THz superradiance FEL is directly attached to the emittance compensating coil of the photoinjector without using any additional beam-fucusing element in between. This compact design allows the construction of a 10-MW FEL at THz frequencies on an ordinary desk. We will also show the usefulness of a tapered undulator for a superradiance FEL. With a 20% linearly tapered undulator, the FEL radiation power can be increased by more than 30%. This FEL is being constructed at the High-energy OPtics and Electronics (HOPE) Laboratory, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. Experimental progress of this ultracompact, high-power single-pass superradiance FEL will be reported in the conference.
Ankara University, Faculty of Engineering, Tandogan, Ankara
N.U, Nigde
Gazi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Teknikokullar, Ankara
Dumlupinar University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Kutahya
Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Tandogan/Ankara
SDU, Isparta
UU, Bursa
Turkish Accelerator Center Infrared Free Electron Laser and Bremsstrahlung (TAC IR FEL&Brems.) project aims to produce cw mode FEL in 2.5-250 microns range and to produce bremsstrahlung photons using 15-40 MeV electron beam. The project is supported by State Planning Organization (SPO) of Turkey and is proceeded with inter university collaboration under the coordination of Ankara University. This facility is now called Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory at Ankara (TARLA) since its building located at Golbasi town 30 km south of Ankara, Turkey It is proposed that the facility will consist of 300 keV thermionic DC gun, two superconducting RF module and two optical resonator systems with 25 and 90 mm period lengths. In this study, the status and road map of the project is presented including some technical details on accelerator and FEL. In addition the research potential of facility is summarized.
NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
Simulation results of subpicosecond bunch formation due to phase motion of electrons in traveling wave are presented. It has been shown that at satisfying phase conditions of electron injection that are necessary for velocity bunching, relative phase velocity of the total wave excited both by RF generator and particles becomes different from unit increasing bunch compression. Simulation of transportation of obtained 8.5 MeV bunches through undulator with a period of 90.6 mm and estimation of bunch form-factor at 446 harmonic of bunch repetition rate of 2797.15 MHz also was carried out. The data obtained allow to expect coherent radiation from undulator at wave-length of 240 um.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
A scheme for the generation of attosecond pulse trains in FEL amplifiers was recently proposed*. The method uses repeated equal temporal delays between the electron bunch and co-propagating radiation to generate a modal structure in the radiation field. The modes may be phase-locked via an energy modulation in the electron beam. As a consequence of the radiation /electron delays, the relative radiation /electron slippage during the interaction is increased and leads to a longer cooperation length with the effect of improving the temporal coherence. In this paper we present simulations demonstrating this effect. In particular, we show that the average spacing between the temporal spikes in a SASE FEL is increased in proportion to the increase in the cooperation length. It may therefore be possible to operate a SASE FEL in single-spike mode with longer, higher charge, electron bunches than previously thought possible.
* Physical Review Letters 100, (203901) 2008.
USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Pulsar Physics, Eindhoven
Recent progress in developing laser-plasma accelerators is raising the possibility of a compact coherent radiation source that could be housed in a medium sized university department. Furthermore, since the duration of electron bunches from laser-plasma wakefield accelerators is determined by the relativistic plasma wavelength, radiation sources based on these accelerators can produce pulses with femtosecond durations. Beam properties from laser-plasma accelerators have been traditionally thought of as not being of sufficient quality to produce amplification. Our work shows that this is not the case. Here we present a study of the beam characteristics of a laser-plasma accelerator and the compact ALPHA-X (Advanced Laser Plasma High-energy Accelerators towards X-rays) FEL. We discuss the implementation of a focussing system consisting of a triplet of permanent magnet quadrupoles and a triplet of electromagnetic quadrupoles*. We will present a study of the influence of beam transport on FEL action in the undulator, paying particular attention to bunch dispersion in the undulator. This is an important step for developing a compact synchrotron source or a SASE free-electron laser.
*The design of these devices has been carried out using the GPT code, which considers space charge effects and allows a realistic estimate of electron beam properties along the beam line.
Diamond, Oxfordshire
JAI, Oxford
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The New Light Source project aims to construct a suite of seeded free-electron lasers driven by a 2.25GeV cw super conducting linac. As part of the upgrade path, a number of options are being considered for generating ultra short (<1fs) soft x-ray pulses, with low-charge 'single-spike' operation and bunch slicing like approaches of particular interest, including as a possible extension to echo-enhanced harmonic generation. In this paper we present the status of this work, including recent results from fully start to end simulations.
IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana
At the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF), we are developing a new XFEL concept, which is based on the Compton scattering and the laser undulator instead of the conventional magnetic undulator. Since the period of the laser undulator is only about 500 nm, the coherent hard X-rays can be generated by using a compact electron accelerator with a beam energy of about 50 MeV. In this paper, we report an estimation of the energy spread growths due to the Compton scattering itself and their impacts on the XFEL lasing in the laser undulator based XFEL concept.
UCLA, Los Angeles
A simple scheme to generate intense light with orbital angular momentum in an FEL is described. The light is generated from a helically pre-bunched beam created in an upstream modulator. The beam energy is tuned to maximize gain in the higher-order mode which reaches saturation well before the spontaneous modes driven by noise are amplified.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Diamond, Oxfordshire
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The crossed-planar undulator is a promising scheme for full polarization control in an x-ray FEL*. For SASE FELs, it has been shown a maximum degree of circular polarization of about 80% is achievable**. In this paper, we study the effectiveness of a cross undulator for a seeded x-ray FEL. The degree of circular polarization for both the fundamental and the harmonic radiation are considered.
* K.-J. Kim, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A445, 329 (2000).
** Y. Ding, Z. Huang, Phys. Rev. ST-AB 11, 030702 (2008).
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
EPFL, Lausanne
In this paper we describe the technical design of an on-going proof-of-principle echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) FEL experiment in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) at SLAC. The experiment was designed through late 2009 and built and installed between October 2009 and January 2010. We present the design considerations, the technical realization and the expected performances of the EEHG experiment.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
EPFL, Lausanne
ECHO-7 is a proof-of-principle echo-enabled harmonic generation* FEL experiment in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) at SLAC. The experiment aims to generate coherent radiation at 318 nm and 227 nm, which is the 5th and 7th harmonic of the infrared seed laser. In this paper we present the preliminary results from the commissioning run of the completed experimental setup which started in April 2010.
* G. Stupakov, PRL, 102, 074801 (2009); D. Xiang and G. Stupakov, PRST-AB, 12, 030702 (2009).
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
Multiturn circulation of a beam from an energy recovery linac (ERL) in a light source with bunch-by-bunch switching devices with RF cavities can reduce the output current of the ERL by a factor of the number of turns of the circulation, keeping the average current of the light source*. This scheme eases the requirement of an electron gun and an ERL, and lead to the possibility of cost-effective multi-pass ERL scheme. In previous work*, the scheme to increase the number of circulation with a ring shaped beam transport was proposed. In this work we propose a scheme without ring-shaped transport and it can be applied to various shapes of ERLs and light sources. As an example, we show a nine-turn circulation light source with the combination of newly proposed three-turn circulation system. The detail of the system, the brightness including the growth of emittance and energy spread by radiation excitation, and the effect of round-to-flat beam conversion which is a possible method for the reduction of the growth of the horizontal emittance are discussed.
* T. Nakamura, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 032803 (2008).
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) can be a detrimental effect on particle bunches with high charge and short bunch lengths. CSR can contribute to an increase in emittance and energy spread, and can limit the process of bunch compression. It is especially important in Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs), because any relative energy spread induced at high energy is magnified after deceleration, and any energy lost by the particles is energy that cannot be recovered. Here we present CSR simulation results using the particle tracking code BMAD for the main operation modes in the proposed Cornell ERL, including an additional bunch compression mode. These simulations consider the effect of CSR shielding, as well as CSR propagation between bends.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
The current status of the lattice and layout for the proposed Cornell Energy Recovery Linac lightsource is presented. This design is centered about a new hard X-ray user facility to be located on Cornell's campus, and is adapted to the local topography in order to incorporate the existing CESR tunnel and Wilson Laboratory. Nonlinear charged-particle optics for this new machine have been designed and analyzed. The lattice is populated with various components for the appropriate accelerator physics requirements for orbit, bunch length, and emittance growth control, including a vacuum system compatible with rest-gas-scattering limits, a collimation system for halo from effects like Touschek scattering, and correction coils and BPMs for sub-micron beam stabilization. We also show calculations for an additional bunch compression mode, which compresses 19~pC bunches at a 1.3~GHz repetition rate to 25~fs.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Recently a new concept*, ** for FEL seeding has been proposed that should allow generation of much higher harmonics of the laser modulation than previously envisioned. The Echo-enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) FEL uses two modulators in combination with two dispersion sections to generate in the beam a high-harmonic density modulation starting with a relatively small initial energy modulation of the beam. The EEHG seeding technique makes feasible a one stage seeding of soft x-ray FELs. An experimental installation is now being constructed at SLAC to demonstrate the EEHG in the NLCTA facility.
*G. Stupakov, PRL, 102, 074801 (2009).
**D. Xiang and G. Stupakov, PRSTAB, 030702 (2009).
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
NSU, Novosibirsk
The Novosibirsk ERL has rather complicated magnetic system. One orbit (11-MeV) for terahertz FEL lies in the vertical plane. Other four orbits lie in the horizontal plane. The beam is directed to these orbits by switching on of two round magnets. In this case electrons pass through RF cavities four times, obtaining 40-MeV. At the 4th orbit the beam is used in FEL, and then is decelerated four times. At the 2nd orbit (20 MeV) we have a bypass with another FEL. When bypass magnets are switched on, the beam passes through this FEL. The length of bypass is chosen to provide the delay necessary to realize deceleration at the3rd pass through accelerating cavities. In 2008 two of four horizontal orbits were assembled and commissioned. The electron beam was accelerated twice and then decelerated down to low injection energy. First multi-orbit ERL operation was demonstrated successfully. In 2009 the first lasing at the second FEL, installed on the bypass of the second track, was achieved. The wavelength tunability range is 40 - 80 micron. Energy recovery of a high energy spread used electron beam was optimized. Third and fourth orbit assembly is in progress.
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
The SOLEIL synchrotron light source is now delivering photons to 20 beamlines with a current of 400 mA in top-up mode. The long and short term H and V beam position stabilities are in the range of one micron thanks to the efficient slow and fast orbit feedbacks, and to the improved tunnel temperature regulation. The bunch by bunch transverse feedback is running with two independent H and V loops. To enable canted undulator implementations, a 3 magnet chicane has been installed in a medium straight whereas an additional triplet of quadrupole was inserted in the middle of a long straight to create a double low vertical beta. 17 insertion devices are now installed in the storage ring, 2 will be added early 2010, 8 are under construction, including a cryogenic undulator. Following the significant progression of the vacuum conditioning, the lifetime is now mainly Touchek limited. An electron bunch slicing set-up is also being installed to provide 100 fs long X-rays pulses to two existing beamlines. ~4500 hours will have been delivered in 2009 to the Beamlines with an availability above 96 % thanks to the very reliable operation of the unique SOLEIL RF system.
HSRC, Higashi-Hiroshima
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
SHI, Tokyo
The HiSOR is a synchrotron radiation (SR) source of Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC), Hiroshima University, established in 1996. HiSOR is a compact racetrack-type storage ring having 21.95 m circumference, and 400-nmrad natural emittance, which is not so small compared with those of other medium~large storage rings. There are 14 beamlines on HiSOR, but the ring has only two straight sections for undulators which are obviously not compatible with modern SR facilities. Therefore, we are planning to construct a compact storage ring, 'HiSOR-II' in which undulators are dominant light sources. We refer to the electron storage ring MAX-III as the best models to design HiSOR-II lattice. This 700 MeV storage ring is designed that the circumference is equal to or less than 50 m so that it can fit in our existing site. It has several straight sections for undulators, and its natural emittance is about 14nmrad. The booster ring aiming for the top-up injection is constructed on the inside basement of HiSOR-II. This layout brings advantages in radiation shielding and prevention of magnetic field interference between two rings.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
We indicated that a storage ring with picometer-order emittance is possible with realistic parameters and is promising as a next generation synchrotron radiation source* and applied it to the SPring-8 storage ring**. The storage ring had the same circumference as that of the SPring-8 storage ring, but had not four long straight sections that SPring-8 storage ring has. Accordingly, the storage ring beam line is slightly different from that of the SPring-8 and the positions of photon beam lines are also different from the existing one. To avoid this, a storage ring with four long straight sections has been studied and was found that the storage ring with the same beam line positions as the existing one is possible. The storage ring consists of twenty ten-bend achromat cells, four five-bend achromat cells and four long straight sections. The long straight section length is 34.0 m and the short one is 6.6 m. The natural emittance is 108 pm-rad. The maximum brightness is 2.5×1022 photons/s/mm**2/mrad**2 in 0.1% BW with 200 mA beam current, about 160 times brighter than SPring-8. In the end I mention that this ultra-low emittance storage ring is only a result of personal design study.
* K. Tsumaki and N. Kumagai, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 565 (2006) 394.
** K. Tsumaki and N. Kumagai, EPAC'06, 3362.
KEK, Ibaraki
KEK manages two synchrotron radiation sources, Photon Factory storage ring (PF-ring) of 2.5 GeV and Photon Factory advanced ring (PF-AR) of 6.5 GeV. These rings share an injector linac with the two main rings of KEK B-factory, 8-GeV HER and 3.5-GeV LER. Recently, the linac has succeeded in a pulse by pulse multi-energy acceleration. A top-up operation of PF-ring has been realized as the simultaneous continuous injection to the 3 rings, PF-ring, HER and LER. Development of new injection scheme using a pulsed sextupole magnet continues aiming at practical use in the top-up operation. A rapid-polarization-switching device consisting of tandem two APPLE-II type undulators has been developed at PF-ring. The first undulator was installed in 2008, and the second one will be installed in 2010 summer. PF-AR, operated in a single-bunch mode at all times, has been suffered from sudden lifetime drop phenomena attributed to dust trapping for many years. Using the movable electrodes installed for experiment, we confirmed that the discharge created by the electrode was followed by the dust trapping, and succeeded in a visual observation of luminous dust streaking in front of CCD cameras.
Nagoya University, Nagoya
UVSOR, Okazaki
KEK, Ibaraki
KURRI, Osaka
Sokendai - Okazaki, Okazaki, Aichi
Terahertz (THz) coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is emitted not only from shorter electron bunches compared with the radiation wavelength but also from electron bunches withμstructures. Formation ofμstructures at sub picosecond scale in electron bunches by a laser slicing technique is experimentally studied through observation of THz CSR. The properties of the THz CSR such as intensity or spectrum depend strongly on the shape and amplitude of theμstructure created in the electron bunches. To study in detail the formation ofμstructure in electron bunches using the laser slicing technique, we have performed experiments at the UVSOR-II electron storage ring. THz CSR, which contains information on theμstructure, was observed under various laser conditions. The THz CSR spectrum was found to depend strongly on the intensity and the pulse width of the laser. The results agreed qualitatively with a numerical calculation. It was suggested that the evolution of theμstructure during CSR emission is important under some experimental conditions.
UVSOR, Okazaki
Nagoya University, Nagoya
KURRI, Osaka
Sokendai - Okazaki, Okazaki, Aichi
UVSOR, a 750 MeV synchrotron light source of 53m circumference had been operated for more than 20 years. After a major upgrade in 2003, this machine was renamed to UVSOR-II. The ring is now routinely operated with low emittance of 27 nm-rad and with four undulators. By utilizing a part of the existing FEL system and an ultra-short laser system, coherent synchrotron radiation in THz range and coherent harmonic generation in VUV range have been extensively studied under international collaborations. Based on results obtained from previous coherent light source developments, a new five-year research program on the coherent light source developments has been started from FY2008, which includes creation of a new 4-m long straight section by moving the injection point, upgrades of the undulator and the laser system and construction of dedicated beam-lines for these coherent light sources. Present status and upgrade plan on these coherent light sources at UVSOR-II will be presented at the conference.
SAGA, Tosu
Saga Light Source (SAGA-LS) is a synchrotron radiation facility with a 255 MeV linac and a 1.4 GeV storage ring. The spectral range covers from VUV to hard X ray region of about 23 keV. Improvement and development of the accelerator have been achieved from official opening of the facility. Stored current of the storage ring has been increased from 100 mA to 300 mA in these three years. An APPLE-2 undulator was developed and installed to a long straight section LS3. A field correction system for the undulator was developed to compensate precisely betatron tune shift, dipole kick and skew quadrupole. A superconducting wiggler is under construction. The peak field and critical energy are 4 T and 5.2 keV, respectively. The wiggler will provide synchrotron radiation in the 20-40 keV range. The wiggler consists of a superconducting main pole and two normal conducting side poles. The main pole is directly cooled by a small GM cryocooler and liquid helium is not used. In addition, laser Compton scattering experiment is under progress. A port to introduce CO2 laser light was installed as a beam line BL1. First gamma ray was observed in December 2009.
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès
The new 3rd generation synchrotron radiation source ALBA built nearby Barcelona is planned to start operation in 2010 with several different insertion devices installed in the storage ring either from the beginning or within the first year of operation. The list of first insertion devices includes: 2 planar PPM SmCo in-vacuum undulators with the period of 21.6 mm; 2 Apple-II type PPM NdFeB undulators with the periods of 62.36 and 71.36 mm respectively; 1 superconducting planar wiggler with the period of 30 mm and a maximum field of 2.1 T, and a 1 conventional wiggler with the period of 80.0 mm and a maximum field of 1.74 T. The emitted light of these IDs covers wide spectral range extending from hard X-rays to UV. Pre-design of the IDs was done by ALBA, but manufacturing has been outsourced. Production is now finished and they have been tested with magnetic measurements. The paper will present the final as build magnetic designs as well as the main results of magnetic measurements performed on the manufactured devices.
Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Tandogan/Ankara
The Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC) is a project for accelerator based fundamental and applied researches supported by Turkish State Planning Organization (TSPO). The proposed synchrotron radiation facility of TAC was consisted of 3.56 GeV positron ring for a third generation light source. In the first study, it was shown that the insertion devices with the proposed parameter sets produce maximal spectral brightness to cover 10 eV - 100 keV photon energy range. Now, in this study it is considered that the electron beam energy will be increased to 4.5 GeV, in order to obtain more brightness light and wide energy spectrum range, also the beam emittance reduced to 1 nm.rad.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Over the past year, we have worked out a baseline design for PEP-X, as an ultra-low emittance storage ring that could reside in the existing 2.2-km PEP-II tunnel. The design features a hybrid lattice with double bend achromat cells in two arcs and theoretical minimum emittance cells in the remaining four arcs. Damping wigglers reduce the horizontal emittance to 86 pm-rad at zero current for a 4.5 GeV electron beam. At a design current of 1.5 A, the horizontal emittance increases, due to intra-beam scattering, to 164 pm-rad when the vertical emittance is maintained at a diffraction limited 8 pm-rad. The baseline design will produce photon beams achieving a brightness of 1022 (ph/s/mm2/mrad2/0.1% BW) at 10 keV in a 3.5-m conventional planar undulator. Our study shows that an optimized lattice has adequate dynamic aperture, while accommodating a conventional off-axis injection system. In this paper, we will present the study of the lattice properties, nonlinear dynamics, intra-beam scattering and Touschek lifetime, and collective instabilities. Finally, we discuss the possibility of partial lasing at soft X-ray wavelengths using a long undulator in a straight section.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
Fiber-based beam loss monitors (BLM) have attracted much attention in recent years. Among them, systems using the detection of the Cerenkov light generated by the secondary charged particles hitting an optical fiber set along the vacuum chamber, offer the possibility to detect beam losses with a very fast response time (less than a few ms) over long distances, good position accuracy and sensitivity at a reasonable cost. For the undulator section of the SPring-8 X-FEL, radiation safety considerations set the desirable detection limit at 1 pC (corresponding to a 0.1% beam loss of the initial 1 nC/pulse) over more than a hundred meter. We report on a the test operation of a fiber-based BLM carried out at the 250 MeV SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS), a 1/16th model of the future X-FEL. The expected detection limit of the BLM based on a large (400 μm) core multimode fiber is below 2 pC over 120 m (for a corresponding 10 mV signal) while the position accuracy is expected to be better than one meter.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
A beam halo region of an electron beam at a linear accelerator might hit the undulator magnets and degrade undulator permanent magnets. An interlock sensor is indispensable to protect the magnets against radiation damage. We have been developing an electron beam halo monitor using diamond detectors for an interlock sensor at the X-ray free electron laser facility at SPring-8 (XFEL/SPring-8). The diamond detectors are operated in photoconductive mode. Pulse-by-pulse measurements are adopted to suppress the background noise efficiently. The feasibility tests of this monitor have been performed at the SPring-8 compact SASE source (SCSS) test accelerator for XFEL/SPring-8, and the results will be summarized.
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
To investigate the effect of an elliptically polarized undulator (EPU) on the dynamic aperture of storage ring a model is required for use in an optics code. An EPU can be modelled as an array of skew dipole magnets. The skew angle ranges from zero to ninety degrees depending on the degree of polarization. Crudely the EPU can be modelled using alternating skew dipole blocks. A model that better reproduces the sinusoidally varying fields can be achieved by slicing blocks into smaller subsets. Field roll-off produced by the limited transverse dimensions of the magnet blocks can be included as skew multipoles. For example the roll-off of the horizontal field in the vertical undulator mode is very nearly a skew sextupole. The model has the advantage of correctly calculating the path length through the EPU which is important for tracking in six dimensions.
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
The Canadian Lightsource is a 2.9 GeV 3rd generation lightsource in Saskatoon, Canada. The latest expansion of operations includes adding 4 insertion devices in 2 straight sections. These devices will include a hybrid permanent magnet wiggler, an in-vacuum undulator and 2 APPLE-II type undulators. The 4 m long elliptical APPLE-II IDs will cover overlapping photon energy ranges of 15-200eV and 200-1000eV. These devices will be installed adjacent to one another in the same straight with the magnet arrays mounted on one support structure and a horizontal translation system to allow users to select one device at a time for use on a single beamline. The 2nd straight will include the hybrid wiggler and in-vacuum undulator in a 3 magnet chicane. The wiggler is designed to supply photons for a center beamline and a side beamline accepting radiation 5 mrad off of the centerline of the radiation fan. The critical energy of photons emitted of the sideline are >90% of the critical energy on the centerline. An 8 mrad center chicane magnet separates the photons of the undulator from the wiggler beamlines allowing for 3 beamlines operating with 2 IDs in a single straight section.
Danfysik A/S, Jyllinge
Danfysik A/S has built a cryogenic in-vacuum undulator for Diamond Light Source, with a period length of 17.7 mm and an effective K of 1.7 at cryogenic temperatures. The undulator is hybrid-type, with Vanadium Permendur poles and NdFeB poles. In order to verify the performance of the device under cryogenic conditions, an in-vacuum measuring system is required. We present the magnetic measurements at room temperature and under cryogenic in-vacuum conditions. The magnet assembly cannot be baked, due to a choice of high-remanence, low coercivity magnet grade. We discuss the vacuum performance of the undulator.
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
The production of hard X rays at SOLEIL, a 2.75 GeV, requires short period and small gap in-vacuum undulators. For shifting further the radiation toward higher energies, the peak magnetic field of the undulators can be further increased by cooling the permanent magnets at cryogenic temperature below 100 K. A R&D programme for the construction of a 2 m long 18 mm period CPMU is launched: the use of PrFeB enables to increase the peak magnetic field at a cryogenic temperature of 77 K. Praseodymium was chosen instead of Neodymium type magnets, because it prevents the appearance of the Spin Reorientation Transition. The magnetic characterisation of different permanent magnet grades at cryogenic temperatures (NdFeB and PrFeB), and the magnetic and thermal measurements on a small 4 period NdFeB cryogenic undulator are presented. The status on the progress of the CPMU conception is given. The magnetic and mechanical design, including the cooling of the girders at 77K, and the thermal budget are described. The designs of the dedicated magnetic measurement benches, which will be required to check the magnetic performance of the undulator at low temperature, are also reported.
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
At SOLEIL, the production of high brilliant photon beams with adjustable polarization is achieved by means of Advanced Planar Polarized Light Emitter-II (APPLE-II) undulators. The HU36 is a short period high field APPLE-II type undulator with 36 mm period and 0.8 T peak field at a minimum gap of 11 mm. The HU36 circularly polarized radiation ranges from 2 keV to 5 keV, while the planar one extends up to 10 keV. High harmonic radiation (up to the 13th) is required to reach such high energy; therefore a small RMS phase error is needed. To enable closing the gap at 11 mm, the HU36 is planned to be installed in a short section where the large horizontal beta function imposes constraining tolerances on the integrated field errors. However at low period and high field, the magnet holders, commonly used at SOLEIL to maintain magnets on the girders, experience mechanical deformation due to the large magnetic forces. This results in the variation of field integrals when the shift between girders is changed. Solutions to minimize these errors are discussed and finally the HU36 magnetic performances are reviewed.
ESRF, Grenoble
An important upgrade of the ESRF is planned from 2009 to 2016. It is mainly driven by the improvement of beamlines performances and capacity. On the storage ring side, the length of the straight sections will be increased from 5 m to 6 m with a possible further extension to 7 m. These long sections will provide a higher photon flux, and it will allow the installation of canted undulators. The length of the insertion devices (ID), such as revolver undulators and in-vacuum undulators, will be modified to fit the first upgraded beamline sections. The resulting implication on the length of new IDs will be presented. The concept of canted undulators is a proposed optional feature. It will rely on novel permanent magnet chicane providing a maximal separation angle of 5.4 mrad while keeping short distance between canted undulators. Magnetic chicane magnets with low fringe field and homogeneous longitudinal field integral have been designed. The developed magnets will be presented.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronen-Speicherring BESSY II, Berlin
At BESSY II photon energies above 2keV can be produced only with bending magnets, a permanent magnet wiggler, superconducting (SC) wavelength shifters and a SC-wiggler. The wiggler brilliance suffers from the depth of field effect and the bending magnets and wavelength shifters produce the X-rays only with a single pole. Experiments such as HIgh Kinetic Energy photoelectron spectroscopy (HIKE) or microspectroscopy on nanostructured materials demand a high brilliance and flux as it is provided by a small period cryogenic undulator. This paper discusses the requirements for the operation of small gap cryogenic devices at BESSY II. A scheme with two adjacent, vertical low beta sections inside of one of the long straight sections is suggested. The straight is divided into two parts by a quadrupole triple in the center. An optic with an increased, vertical beta tune by 0.5 is presently studied. The optics outside of the low beta section and the horizontal tune are kept unchanged.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronen-Speicherring BESSY II, Berlin
LMU, Garching
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
In collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich a cryogenic PrFeB- based undulator has been built. The 20-period device has a period length of 9mm and a fixed gap of 2.5mm. The undulator has recently been installed at the laser plasma accelerator at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantenoptik. The operation of a small gap device at a high emittance electron beam requires stable magnetic material. A high coercivity is achieved with PrFeB- material which is cooled down to 50K. This temperature is 100K lower as compared to the temperature of a NdFeB-based cryogenic undulator. In this paper we present the mechanic and cryogenic design and compare the predictions with measured data. The results are extrapolated to a 2m-long variable gap undulator.
Uni HH, Hamburg
DESY, Hamburg
ANL, Argonne
A seeded free-electron laser (FEL) experiment at VUV wavelengths, called sFLASH, is being prepared at the existing SASE FEL user facility FLASH. Seed pulses at wavelengths around 35 nm from high harmonic generation (HHG) will interact with the electron beam in sFLASH undulators upstream of the existing SASE undulator section. In this paper the tuning results and performance of the sFLASH undulators are presented.
KIT, Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
CERN, Geneva
The monochromaticity and intensity of synchrotron light emitted by undulators strongly depend on the undulator field quality. For the particular case of superconductive undulators it was shown recently that their field quality can be significantly improved by an array of coupled high temperature superconductor loops attached to the surface of the superconductive undulator. Local field errors induce currents in the coupled closed superconducting loops and, as a result, the hereby generated magnetic field minimizes the field errors. In previous papers the concept was described theoretically and a proof-of-principle experiment was reported. This paper reports results of the first quantitative measurement of the phase error reduction in a 12-period short model undulator equipped with a full-scale induction shimming system.
KIT, Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
CERN, Geneva
In the superconductive undulator SCU14, installed at ANKA, time dependent drifts in the magnetic fields were observed*. Simulations with the software OPERA 3D showed, that the cause of these drifts might be leak and eddy currents in the iron body of the undulator caused by the time-varying currents and fields during current ramps, which slowly decay by ohmic losses. This assumption was crosschecked by measurements at different mockup bodies. This contribution discusses the results of the simulations and measurements and the consequential strategies for avoiding this effect.
* S. Ehlers et. al. "Magnetic field transients in superconductive undulators", in Proceedings of the Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, 2009, to be published.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
BNG, Würzburg
A 1.5 m long superconducting undulator with a period length of 15 mm is planned to be installed in ANKA middle 2010 to be the light source of the new beamline NANO for high resolution X-ray diffraction. The key specifications of the system are an undulator parameter K higher than 2 (for a magnetic gap of 5mm) and a phase error smaller than 3.5 degrees. In order to characterize the magnetic field properties of the superconducting coils local field measurements have been performed by moving a set of Hall probes on a sledge in a liquid helium bath: the results are reported.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Precise measurements of the magnetic properties of conventional, i.e., permanent magnet based insertion devices has undergone tremendous improvements over the past 10 to 15 years and initiated a new era in synchrotron light sources worldwide. A similar breakthrough is now necessary in the field of superconducting insertion devices. In this contribution we describe the planned instrumentation to perform magnetic measurements of the local field, the field integrals and the multipole components of superconducting undulator coils in a cold invacuum (cryogen free) environment.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
BNG, Würzburg
One of the advantages of superconducting insertion devices (IDs) with respect to permanent magnet IDs is the possibility to enlarge the spectral range by changing the period length by reversing the direction of the current in a part of the windings. In this contribution we report the first experimental test of this principle demonstrated on a 70mm NbTi mock-up coil with period tripling, allowing to switch between a 15mm period length undulator and a 45mm wiggler.
BNG, Würzburg
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Superconducting insertion devices (IDs) are very attractive for synchrotron light sources since they allow increasing the flux and/or the photon energy with respect to permanent magnet IDs. Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) completed the fabrication of a 1.5 m long unit for ANKA at KIT. The period length of the device is 15 mm for a total of 100.5 full periods plus an additional matching period at each end. The key specifications of the system are: a K value higher than 2 for a magnetic gap of 5 mm, the capability of withstanding a 4 W beam heat load and a phase error smaller than 3.5 degrees. The field performance of the magnets has been qualified with liquid helium in a vertical dewar. As a result of this test the local correction coils have been installed and the magnets inserted in the final cryostat. During the factory acceptance test, the conduction cooling operation has been qualified and at the moment the undulator is ready to be tested at KIT. This paper describes the main features of the system and the results of the factory acceptance tests.
ELETTRA, Basovizza
RIAL VACUUM S.p.A, Parma
The FERMI@Elettra project at the ELETTRA Laboratory of Sincrotrone Trieste (ST), currently under construction, will be comprised of a linear accelerator and two Free-Electron-Laser beamlines (FEL1, FEL2). In order to deliver high-intensity VUV and soft X-ray pulses, permanent magnet undulators with 9 mm minimum variable gap will be used. The adopted vacuum chambers will have a 7 by 25 mm2 elliptical internal cross-section. While manufacturing the vacuum chamber in aluminum helps reducing the resistive wall wakefield effects, the chamber inner wall surface quality is strongly correlated to the surface roughness wakefield component. We report on the results of the study to improve the wall surface finish and lower the roughness periodicity. The chamber manufacturing status and its alignment mechanism is also presented.
HSRC, Higashi-Hiroshima
More than a decade has past after the original quasi-periodic undulator (QPU) was proposed.* Until now, much work has been done to improve the QPU performance. One of the first most productive improvements was to introduce the quasi-periodicity in an electron trajectory by partially changing the field strength in a periodic undulator.** Also, a modification of creation theory of one-dimensional quasi-periodicity gave another degree of freedom to build this type of device.*** As the result, many different types of QPUs have been and will be installed in the synchrotron radiation facilities worldwide.**** In this paper, a new scheme of quasi-periodic undulator that has a different magnetic structure is proposed. This new QPU generates a slightly higher intensity radiation with higher harmonics pattern different from those of previous QPUs. This new scheme of QPU is achieved by introducing orthogonal field in each half-period in order to create additional phase delay of electron beam at certain positions predicted by the theory. We discuss about realistic magnetic configurations as well as possibilities and limitations of new-QPUs.
* Hashimoto, Sasaki, NIM A361, 611 (1995)
** Chavanne, et al, Proc EPAC98, p2213, Diviacco, et al, ibid, p2216
*** Sasaki, et al, Proc EPAC98, p2237
**** Steier, et al, Proc EPAC08, p2311
Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Higashi-Hirosima
HSRC, Higashi-Hiroshima
Different form conventional periodic undulators, the quasi-periodic undulator (QPU) can radiate irrational harmonics instead of rational harmonics. It suits with experiments that need highly monochromatic light after passing through the monochromator. For this reason, the QPU is used in many synchrotron radiation facilities all over the world. Recently, new type QPUs that generate radiation spectra different from those by conventional type QPU were proposed*,**. In principle, the shape of radiation spectrum from a new QPU is determined by magnetic field distribution having different quasi periodic pattern. However, calculated spectra using a realistic magnetic field are often different from those of theoretical expectation. In this paper, a detailed comparative study is conducted to examine why there are these differences, how to correct magnetic field to get predicted spectra that fit to the theory. In addition, a possibility of modifying the basis of theory is investigated. These results, new generation method of new quasi-periodicity, and magnetic field distribution to achieve the best performance are presented at the conference.
* S. Sasaki, Proceedings of PAC09, Vancouver, May, 2009.
** S. Sasaki, Proceedings of 6th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (in Japanese).
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
PSI, Villigen
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
The cryogenic permanent magnet undulator (CPMU) is an insertion device in which permanent magnets are cooled down to cryogenic temperature (CT) to improve the magnetic performances. Although CPMUs are realized by a slight modification of in-vacuum undulators (IVUs), we have several technical challenges to be overcome. Among them, the most important one is how to ensure the magnetic performance, in other words, how to measure the magnetic field at CT, and how to correct it if necessary. A new method of the phase-error correction has been proposed at SPring-8, in which the gap variation is corrected by adjusting mechanically the in-vacuum beam. What is important in this method is that the correction can be done at CT without breaking the vacuum, i.e., an 'in-situ' field correction is possible. The correction method has been tested to check the feasibility using the new CPMU with a magnetic period of 14 mm and a magnetic length of 1.7 m constructed for Swiss Light Source. In this paper, the principle and results are described together with the details of the new measurement system SAFALI (self aligned field analyzer with laser instrumentation) for the field measurement of CPMUs.
KEK, Ibaraki
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
The fast local bump system for the helicity switching of variably polarizing undulators has been developed at the Photon Factory ring. The system consists of two APPLE-II type variably polarizing undulators and five identical horizontal kicker magnets for local bump with four small corrector magnets to prevent the leakage of the bump. At present, one undulator and the local bump system with corrector magnets are installed. For beam test, the system was operated with frequency up to 50 Hz with feed forward correction. In this presentation, after brief description of the system configuration, the results of the test operation and fine tunings of the fast local bump system are shown.
KEK, Ibaraki
We have been developing a rapid-polarization-switching source at the B15-16 straight section in the PF 2.5GeV ring. The source consists of tandem two APPLE-II type elliptically polarizing undulators (EPU), namely U#16-1 and U#16-2, and a fast kicker system. These two undulators are designed to obtain the soft x-ray at the energy region from 200eV to 1keV with various polarization states. We have constructed U#16-1 and installed in the PF ring in March 2008. The operation of U#16-1 for the user experiments has been started successfully since April 2008. The construction of the second undulator U#16-2 is underway. U#16-2 will be installed in the PF ring at this summer. We report the result of the magnetic field adjustment of the U#16-2.
Kyoto IAE, Kyoto
Aiming at realizing a short period undulator with strong magnetic field, we have proposed a Bulk HTSC (high temperature superconductor) Staggered Array Undulator which consists of bulk high temperature superconductor magnets with a staggered array configuration. The experiment with the prototype undulator at 77 K shows this configuration can be applicable to real undulator. We also estimated the magnetic performance of real device by calculations with a loop current model based on Bean model of superconductor. Although end field termination is required for practical use, traditional methods are not applicable for the bulk HTSCs. We found that the end field termination can be realized by controlling the shape and size of bulk HTSCs at the end section by numerical calculation using the loop current model. In the conference, the calculation and experimental result of end field termination will be presented.
SAGA, Tosu
An APPLE-II type variably polarized undulator was installed in the SAGA-LS storage ring in 2008. Following the installation, we have investigated influence of the undulator on the electron beam. Based on the measurements, we have developed a feedforward correction system to minimize the effects of the undulator. The correction system successfully compensates for closed orbit distortion (COD), betatron tune shift and a weak change in the betatron coupling. The standard deviation of the COD variation relative to the reference orbit and the tune shift are suppressed to less than 4 micron and 0.001, respectively, when the pole gap is changed at a fixed phase. The observed tune shift is interpreted in terms of a second order focusing effect evaluated by RADIA code. The simulated tune shift fairly agrees with the measurements. To minimize the effects on the betatron coupling, a wire-type skew quadrupole magnet mounted on the undulator duct is utilized. The skew field required for the coupling compensation is consistent with those predicted by field integral measurements. The feedforward correction reduces the effect to a relative change in the vertical beamsize of 5%.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
The enhancement of arbitrary odd harmonic field is analyzed for pure permanent magnet undulator. The two dimensional analytical formula of the magnetic field is given for a modified Harbch type undulator, in which the magnet blocks have different size. It is shown that the odd harmonic field can be enhanced by optimal the length ratio of the vertical magnetized magnet blocks and the horizontal magnetized magnet blocks, the 3rd harmonic field can exceeded 20% of the fundamental field and 7th harmonic field can exceeded 3 % of the fundamental field for magnet gap-period ratio equal to 0.1.
SINAP, Shanghai
The undulator controller based on Siemens S7-300 PLC is mainly consisted of controlling motion of two stepper motor, monitoring real-time gap position of upstream and downstream through position feedback derived from four linear absolute encoders (LAEs) with 0.1μm resolution, monitoring cooling water's temperature and flux (CWTF), monitoring magnet array temperature (MAT), providing remote access for EPICS via Ethernet, as well as MPS and PPS interlock interface to and from upper-level protection system. In addition, the controller is equipped with considerate motion safety protection tactics. As for the gap position protection, besides mechanical hard stop, software limit, photo-interrupter limit and kill switch are available to achieve it. As for the taper protection, software limit is available to achieve it.
MAX-lab, Lund
The MAX IV light source, presently under construction at MAX-lab in Lund, Sweden, will consist of two separate storage rings and a linac-driven short-pulse facility. The two storage rings are operated at different energies, 3 GeV and 1.5 GeV, to provide synchrotron radiation of high brightness over a broad spectral range. The 3 GeV linac serves as a full-energy injector for the storage rings as well as the driver of the short-pulse facility delivering intense x-ray pulses. The paper describes a selection of possible insertion devices to be installed at the MAX IV 3 GeV ring and the expected heat loads produced by the insertion devices.
NCTU, Hsinchu
NSRRC, Hsinchu
A wiggler with the property of low total radiation power and keeping high photon flux in hard x-ray region, 5-20 keV, which is necessary for the special demand of users, was under investigated for reducing the difficulty of the design of optical components in the beam line and decreasing the load of RF cavity power. Such an insertion devise was called wiggler-like undulator. The spectrum of wiggler-like undulater was investigated with a code, of which the algorithm is based on the compromising between photon flux and radiation power of insertion devices for spectrum optimization. The property of the spectrum of the wiggler-like undulator are discussed herein. Furthermore, the brilliance and the power distribution are somehow also discussed.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Shimming magnetic field error on each pole in the Elliptically Polarized Undulator (EPU) is a time-consuming work and highly based on experience without scientific systematic methods. Therefore, an auto-field shimming program is developed to save time on pole shimming process. The program is including two major steps to analyze where the poles is defective or imperfect. Step one is to clarify the magnetic pole quality. If its quality is far away to user-defined standards, we change the pole instead of processing to balance them relatively for uniform magnetic field. The magnetic pole quality is based on deltaB/Bavg and deltaI/Iavg(half period of integral) percentage. The second step is to build the effective field and once integral model of pole and permanent magnet calculation. If we shim the defective pole by moving vertically and transversely, it would surge intrinsic change of the deltaB/Bavg and deltaI/Iavg at defective and surrounded poles. Auto-field shimming algorithm would assist us to plan shimming strategies to deal with magnetic poles.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
An elliptically polarized undulator of length 3.5 m and period length 48 mm (EPU48) is designed to fulfil experiments on spin-polarized PES and inelastic scattering at the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS). EPU48 would be used to produce variously polarized light in the soft X-ray spectral domain 0.4-1.5 keV. To achieve efficient mechanical performance and a high quality of photon source, a new manufacturing method by casting is adopted to fabricate a key component of the carriage of the undulator at National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC). We expect this approach to bestow advantages of decreased assembly error, increased rigidity and highly precise properties. Here we describe details of the design of the magnetic circuit and the mechanical design of the EPU48 based on this new concept of engineering construction.
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
An analytic description of the synchrotron radiation from electrons with short-period helical trajectories is given by the Kincaid equation. A new code is under development which generates an analytical description of an arbitrary magnetic field, including non-linear and higher-order multipole (fringe field) components. The magnetic field map of a short-period undulator was modelled, using a 3-d finite element solver, and it's analytical field description has been used to compare the synchrotron radiation output from electrons with a 'realistic' trajectory in terms of the ideal analytic equations. The results demonstrate how small numerical inaccuracies in the particle tracking can lead to large inaccuracies in the calculated synchrotron output. The affects of the higher order field modes are studied which give additional insights into the radiation output from long undulator systems.
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Recent designs for third generation light sources commonly call for undulator systems with a total length of several hundreds of metres. Calculating the synchrotron output from bunches of charged particles traversing such a system using numerical techniques takes an unfeasibly long time even on modern multi-node computer clusters. Analytical formulae (i.e. the Kincaid Equation) provide a more rapid solution for an idealised system but necessarily fail to produce the non-ideal response which is under investigation. A new code is described which generates an analytic description of an arbitrary magnetic field and uses differential algebra and Lie methods to describe the particle dynamics in terms of series of transfer maps. The synchrotron output can then be calculated using arbitrarily large step size with no loss of accuracy in the trajectory. The code is easily adapted to perform parallel calculations on multi-core machines. Examples of the radiation output from several long magnet systems are described and the performance is assessed.
ANL, Argonne
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
A number of prototype magnetic structures for a superconducting undulator have been successfully built and tested. The field quality of a test device was measured in a vertical dewar; the phase errors were 7.1 deg. at the maximum design current with no phase shimming. The Advanced Photon Source (APS) specification for overall trajectory was met using the end compensation coils. Several Hall probes have been calibrated at cryogenic temperatures. The design for a cryostat to hold the undulator for installation in the APS storage ring is nearing completion, and a cryogenic measurement facility to measure the magnetic field of the completed undulator is under development.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Various magnet sorting strategies have been used to minimize trajectory and phase errors in undulators, ranging from intuitive pairing of stronger and weaker magnets, to full 3D FEM simulation with actual Helmholtz coil magnet data. We present a simpler approach, first deriving trajectory displacement, kick angle and phase error signatures of each component of magnetization error from a 3D Radia* undulator model. Then, for a given sequence of magnets, the trajectory and phase profiles are computed by cumulatively summing the scaled displacements and phase errors. The rms error is then minimized by swapping magnets according to one's favorite optimization method. A fast, simple magnet swapping algorithm, implemented in Mathematica, is described. 100,000 iterations take only minutes, so dozens of solutions can be compared. This approach was applied recently at NSLS to a short in-vacuum undulator, which required no trajectory or phase shimming. We also obtain trajectory and phase error signatures of some mechanical errors, to guide "virtual shimming" and specifying mechanical tolerances. Finally, multipole signatures of some simple inhomogeneities are modeled.
* O. Chubar, P. Elleaume, J. Chavanne, "A 3D Magnetostatics Computer Code for Insertion Devices", SRI97 Conference August 1997, J. Synchrotron Rad. (1998). 5, 481-484
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) project is now in the construction stage. A new insertion device (ID) magnetic measurement facility (MMF) is being set up at Brookhaven National Laboratory in order to satisfy the stringent requirement on the magnetic field measurement of IDs. ISO-Class7 temperature stabilized clean room is being constructed for this purpose. A state-of-the-art Hall probe bench and integrated field measurement system will be installed therein. IDs in the project baseline scope include six damping wigglers, two elliptically polarizing undulators (EPUs), three 3.0m long in-vacuum undulators (IVUs) and one 1.5m long IVU. Three-pole wigglers with peak field over 1 Tesla will be utilized to accommodate the users of bending magnet radiation at the NSLS. Future plan includes: 1) an in-vacuum magnetic measurement system, 2) use of PrFeB magnet for improved cryo undulator, 3) development of advanced optimization program for sorting and shimming of IDs, 4) development of a closed loop He gas refrigerator, 5) switchable quasi-periodic EPU. Design features of the baseline devices, IDMMF and the future plans for NSLS-II ID activities are described.
CASA, newport news
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The possibility of producing sub-ps x-ray by putting undulator in CEBAF machine will be discussed. The performance of undulator radiation at CEBAF will be calculated and compared with storage ring light source.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
It is proposed to investigate the option of moving the positron source to the end of the main linac as a part of the central integration in the International Linear Collider project. The positron source incorporates an undulator at the end of the main linac and the photons generated in the undulator are transported to the target, located at a distance of around 400m. The dogleg design has been optimised to provide the required transverse off-set at the location of the target and to give minimum emittance growth at 500 GeV. The design of the dogleg and the tolerances on beam tuning as a result of locating this dogleg in the beginning of the beam delivery system are presented.
MEPhI, Moscow
Nowadays the DC potential using was proposed for ion beam focusing in linear accelerators. It was proposed to use the DC potential for combined beam focusing (electrostatic focusing and focusing by using of higher RF field spatial harmonics) in bunching section of linac *. These accelerators use an IH-type resonator. So-called linear undulator accelerator (UNDULAC) was proposed for ribbon ion beam bunching and acceleration **. One of possible scheme of UNDULAC can be realized using an electrostatic undulator in E-type resonator. In this report the different types of the electrostatic potential inputting into resonator will discussed.
* P.А. Demchenko at al., Problems of Atomic Science and Technology, 2008, 5 (50), pp. 28-32.
** E.S. Masunov at al., Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2001, v. 61, рр. 491-493.
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
USC, Los Angeles, California
Recent initiatives at UCLA concerning ultra-short, GeV electron beam generation have been aimed at achieving sub-fs pulses capable of driving X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) in single-spike mode. This uses of very low charge beams, which may allow existing FEL injectors to produce few-100 attosecond pulses, with very high brightness. Towards this end, recent experiments at the Stanford X-ray FEL (LCLS, first of its kind, built with essential UCLA leadership) have produced ~2 fs, 20 pC electron pulses. We discuss here extensions of this work, in which we seek to exploit the beam brightness in FELs, in tandem with new developments at UCLA in cryogenic undulator technology, to create compact accelerator/undulator systems that can lase below 0.15 Angstroms, or be used to permit 1.5 Angstrom operation at 4.5 GeV. In addition, we are now developing experiments which use the present LCLS fs pulses to excite plasma wakefields exceeding 1 TV/m, permitting a table-top TeV accelerator for frontier high energy physics applications.
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen
The development of an intense polarised positron sources provides a challenge for a new generation of linear colliders. The software framework Geant4, a toolkit for simulation of the passage of particles trough matter, features tracking capabilities of charged particles in electromagnetic fields, and also includes the description of polarisation transfer in scattering processes. Based on Geant4 a novel simulation tool, PPS-Sim*, has been developed to optimise the design and to determine polarisation, beam properties, as well as energy deposition in accelerator components. All source components and their parameters can be chosen easily and flexible. Helical undulator, laser-Compton and coherent Bremsstrahlung in crystals are available as positron production schemes. Target materials and geometry can be adjusted. Flux concentrator, quarter wave transformer and lithium lens are implemented as possible capture devices. Geometry, accelerating components and magnetic field configuration can be specified by the user. In this contribution, PPS-Sim will be presented, and selected results for linear collider applications will be discussed.
* PPS-Sim web page - http://pps-sim.desy.de
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
Lancaster University, Lancaster
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
CLIC will need of order 10 to the 14 positrons per second to achieve its specified luminosity. For such a challenge, an undulator based scheme has been proposed as one of the options for the positron source. As CLIC may operate over a wide range of energy (from 0.5 TeV to 3 TeV), there is a large margin for us to push the performance of the whole system to be more efficient. We report on the undulator parameters and optimization of components of the source such as conversion target, AMD, solenoid and capture RF for different operational scenarios. In addition to maximizing the positron yield the polarization of the positron beam are also considered.
ANL, Argonne
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
We propose a viable positron source scheme that uses circularly polarized gamma rays generated from the main 250 GeV electron beam. The beam passes through a helical superconducting undulator with a magnetic field of ~ 1 Tesla and a period of a few centimeters. The gamma-rays produced in the undulator in the energy range between ~ 3 MeV ~ 100 MeV will be directed to a titanium target and produces polarized positrons. The positrons are then captured, accelerated and transported to a damping ring. Detailed parameter studies of this scheme including positron yield, undulator parameter dependence and target composition and geometry will be presented. Effects on the 250 GeV drive beam, including emittance, energy spread and energy loss from the beam passing through the undulator will also be discussed.
ANL, Argonne
We present an update on the ANL ILC positron source study. We examined the impact of different drive beam energies on the positron yield and polarization for the ILC RDR baseline undulator. The e+ yield is found to drop rapidly as the drive beam energy is reduced. We studied different undulator parameters for their effect on the positron yield and polarization when working at lower drive beam energies. Using a lower K (B field level) can increase the photon energy, but it is still very difficult to bring the yield up for low drive beam energies. For 250 GeV drive beam options, we studied the RDR undulator performance as a function of K. Instead of powering off some sections of the undulator, one can also consider lowering the B field to bring the positron yield back to the desired 1.5 e+/e-. We also studied the liquid lead target option for ILC positron source and the energy deposition in the reference design Ti target wheel.
DESY, Hamburg
PETRA III is a 6 GeV third generation light source located at DESY/Hamburg. The former pre-accelerator of HERA has been converted in 2007/2008 into a high brilliance synchrotron light source with an emittance of 1 nm*rad. The commissioning of PETRA III started in 2009. PETRA III is like other third generation light sources very sensitive to errors of the linear optics. Gradient errors reduce the dynamic aperture, increase the emittance and change the beam size. The correction of the optics is based on orbit response matrix data which were analyzed both with the program LOCO and with a fit of the beta-functions and phase-functions at BPMs and correctors. Initial results of the modelling of the machine and the correction of the linear optics functions will be presented.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
A set of three in-vacuum undulators is going to be installed in one of four long straight sections of the SPring-8 storage ring. In order to make the undulator gap as narrow as possible, we plan to divide this long straight section into three sub-sections and install quadrupole magnets between these sub-sections to lower the vertical betatron function. In the modified lattice, however, the symmetry of the ring is lowered and in general it becomes difficult to keep a sufficient dynamic aperture for on- and off-momentum electrons. The long straight sections were originally introduced in the year 2000 and at that time we developed a method of "quasi-transparent matching of sextupole fields" where two key concepts of betatron phase matching and local chromaticity correction were combined to obtain a sufficient dynamic aperture and momentum acceptance. Then, in the year 2007 "counter-sextupole magnets" were further installed to cancel the effect due to non-linear kick by sextupole magnets used for local chromaticity correction. In designing the new lattice with a modified long straight section, we followed the same line and could recover the dynamic aperture and momentum acceptance.
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
SOLEIL, the French 2.75 GeV high brilliance third generation synchrotron light source is delivering photons to 20 beam lines and is presently equipped with 17 insertion devices. Significant reduction of injection efficiency and beam lifetime are observed when using some undulator configurations in daily operation. Measurements on electron beam, such as beam lifetime versus RF voltage, have shown that the energy acceptance is strongly reduced by the combined non linear effects of the four U20 in-vacuum undulators and the HU640 10m long undulator used in linear vertical polarization mode. This paper will present the on and off momentum frequency map measurements that have been performed in order to investigate such effects. The reduction of the on momentum dynamic aperture in the presence of the U20 undulators is confirmed. The off momentum frequency map measurements confirm that the energy acceptance of the bare machine is very large as predicted by tracking calculations, and clearly exhibit the strong energy acceptance reduction due to undulators.
ELETTRA, Basovizza
The 4th Generation Light Source FERMI@ELETTRA, in construction at the ELETTRA Laboratory in Trieste, requires very short electron bunches at the entrance of the undulator chain. To linearize the longitudinal phase space in the presence of the compression process, a 4th harmonic decelerating section (11992 MHz) will be installed before the first magnetic chicane. An X-band structure, with integrated alignment monitors [1], is currently under development in the framework of collaboration between CERN-PSI-ELETTRA. In this paper we will present a full longitudinal and transversal beam dynamics of the electron beam along the X-band structure during linearization process using 3D space charge code TStep [2]. Beam dynamics simulations will also be continued along the whole FERMI linac using elegant code [3].