IPAC2014 - List of Authors (Piot, P.)

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TUPME041	The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at Fermilab: Science Program	1447
	P. Piot, E.R. Harms, S. Henderson, J.R. Leibfritz, S. Nagaitsev, V.D. Shiltsev, A. Valishev Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Funding: This work is supported by DOE contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) currently in commissioning phase at Fermilab is foreseen to support a broad range of beam-based experiments to study fundamental limitations to beam intensity and to develop novel approaches to particle-beam generation, acceleration and manipulation. ASTA incorporates a superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) linac coupled to a flexible high-brightness photoinjector. The facility also includes a small-circumference storage ring capable of storing electrons or protons. This report summarizes the facility capabilities, and provide an overview of the accelerator-science researches to be enabled.
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TUPME042	Planned High-gradient Flat-beam-driven Dielectric Wakefield Experiments at the Fermilab’s Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator	1451
	F. Lemery, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA P. Piot, J. Zhu Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA J. Zhu CAEP/IFP, Mainyang, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
	In beam driven dielectric wakefield acceleration (DWA), high-gradient short-wavelength accelerating fields are generally achieved by employing dielectric-lined waveguides (DLWs) with small aperture which constraints the beam sizes. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using a low-energy (50-MeV) flat beams to induce high-gradient wakes in a slab-symmetric DLW. We demonstrate via numerical simulations the possibility to produce axial electric field with peak amplitude close to 0.5 GV/m. Our studies are carried out using the Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) photoinjector beamline. We finally discuss a possible experiment that could be performed in the ASTA photoinjector and eventually at higher energies.
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TUPME043	Temporal Electron-bunch Shaping from a Photoinjector for Advanced Accelerator Applications	1454
	F. Lemery, P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA P. Piot Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Advanced-accelerator applications often require the production of bunches with shaped temporal distributions. An example of sought-after shape is a linearly-ramped current profile that can be improve the transformer ratio in beam-driven acceleration, or produce energy-modulated pulse for, e.g., the subsequent generation of THz radiation. Typically, such a shaping is achieved by manipulating ultra-relativistic electron bunches. In this contribution we discuss the possibility of shaping the bunch via photoemission and demonstrate using particle-in-cell simulations the production of MeV electron bunches with quasi-ramped current profile.
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TUPME044	Planned High-brightness Channeling Radiation Experiment at Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator	1457
	B.R. Blomberg, D. Mihalcea, H. Panuganti, P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA C.A. Brau, B.K. Choi, W.E. Gabella, B.L. Ivanov, M.H. Mendenhall Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA C.W. Lynn Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA P. Piot, T. Sen Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA W.S. Wagner Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of Radiation Physics, Dresden, Germany
	Funding: Work supported by the DARPA Axis program under contract AXIS N66001-11-1-4196 In this contribution we describe the technical details and experimental setup of our study aimed at producing high-brightness channeling radiation (CR) at Fermilab’s new user facility the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA). In the ASTA photoinjector area electrons are accelerated up to 40-MeV and focused to a sub-micron spot on a ~40 micron thick carbon diamond, the electrons channel through the crystal and emit CR up to 80-KeV. Our study utilizes ASTA’s long pulse train capabilities and ability to preserve ultra-low emittance, to produce the desired high average brightness.
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WEPRO007	Nanometer Scale Coherent Current Modulation via a Nanotip Cathode Array and Emittance Exchange	1952
	E.A. Nanni, W.S. Graves MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA P. Piot Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
	Funding: NSF DMR-1042342, DARPA N66001-11-1-4192 We present PIC simulations of electron bunches with nm scale longitudinal modulation produced using a compact 2-20 MeV LINAC. The modulation is initially imparted in the transverse dimension of the electron bunch with a nano-patterned photo-emitter in a X-band RF gun with 2 MeV exit energy. The electron bunch passes through a 1 m standing wave X-band LINAC which can raise the beam energy up to 20 MeV. The transverse modulation is exchanged into the longitudinal dimension using a double dog-leg emittance exchange setup with a 5 cell RF deflector cavity. The modulation pitch can be tuned by adjusting the spacing of the nano-patterned photo-emitter or magnification of the transverse pitch with electron optics. The electron beam parameters are optimized to produce coherent XFEL radiation upon interacting with a “laser undulator”.
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THPRO033	Electron-bunch Shaping for Coherent Compton Scattering	4107
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	J.E. Thorne, P. Piot, I. Viti Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA P. Piot Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Producing high-quality x rays could have important applications to high-precision medical imaging and national security. Inverse Compton scattering involving the head-on collision of a relativistic electron bunch with a high-power laser offers a viable path toward the realization of a compact x-ray source. A method consisting in reflecting a short-pulse laser onto a “relativistic mirror” (a moving thin sheet of electrons) has been proposed and recently demonstrated as a way to enhance the back-scattered photon flux by operating in the coherent regime. In this contribution we present particle-in-cell numerical simulations of the inverse Compton scattering process and especially investigate the impact of the laser-pulse and electron-beam distributions that could substantially improve the x-ray production via coherent emission.
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THPRO086	Flat-beam Generation and Compression at Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator	3086
	J. Zhu, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA D. Mihalcea, P. Piot, C.R. Prokop Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
	An important asset of Fermilab’s Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) is its ability to generate flat beams with high-transverse emittance ratios. In this paper, we present a practical design and simulation of flat beam generation and compression with various bunch charges up to 3.2 nC. Emittance growth within the round-to-flat beam transformer and the impact of low energy compression is discussed in detail. Finally, it is found that the compressed flat beam could provide exciting opportunities in the field of advanced acceleration techniques and accelerator-based light source.
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TUPME060	Simulation Analysis on Micro-Bunched Density Modulation from a Slit-Masked Chicane	1509
	Y.-M. Shin, P. Piot, C.R. Prokop Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA D.R. Broemmelsiek, E.R. Harms, A.H. Lumpkin, J. Ruan, J.C.T. Thangaraj Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Funding: This work was supported by the DOE contract No. DEAC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC. Pre-bunching a beam at a resonance condition with an accelerating structure vastly improves performance of beam-driven accelerators and undulators since it enhances a beam-wave coupling. We plan to test a slit-mask micro-buncher at the chicane of Fermilab-ASTA 50 MeV beamline in the effort of advanced accelerator research. With the chicane design parameters (bending angle (alpha) of 18 degree, R56 ~ - 0.18 m, and bending radius of ~ 0.78 m), analytic model showed that a slit-mask with W (period) = 900 um and a (aperture width) = 300 um (30 % transparency) generates 100 um spaced micro-bunches with 5 ~ 6 % correlated energy spread. Two kinds of combined beamline simulation, CST-PS+Impact-Z and Elegant+Shower, including space charge and CSR effects, showed that a 900 um spaced, 300 um wide slits placed in the middle of chicane splits 20 pC – 1 nC bunches into ~ 100 um spaced micro-bunches. It is possible that a further optimization of mask design creates sub-100 fs micro-bunches, which is currently under development. [1] NIM A 375, 597 (1996) [2] PRL 101, 054801 (2008) [3] Y.-E Sun, P. R. G. Piot, FEMILAB-CONF-08-408-APC * ASTA: Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator
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WEPRI058	Commissioning Status of the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at Fermilab	2615
	J. Ruan, R. Andrews, C.M. Baffes, D.R. Broemmelsiek, K. Carlson, B. Chase, M.D. Church, D.J. Crawford, E. Cullerton, J.S. Diamond, N. Eddy, D.R. Edstrom, E.R. Harms, A. Hocker, A.S. Johnson, A.L. Klebaner, M.J. Kucera, J.R. Leibfritz, A.H. Lumpkin, J.N. Makara, S. Nagaitsev, O.A. Nezhevenko, D.J. Nicklaus, L.E. Nobrega, P.S. Prieto, J. Reid, J.K. Santucci, G. Stancari, D. Sun, M. Wendt, S.J. Wesseln Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
	Funding: *Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) is under construction at Fermilab. This accelerator will consist of a photo-electron gun, injector, ILC-type cryomodules, and multiple downstream beam-lines. Its purpose is to be a user-based facility for Advanced Accelerator R&D. . Following the successful commissioning of the photoinjector gun, a Tesla style 8-cavity cryomodule and a high gradient capture cavity have been cooled down to 2 K and powered commissioning and performance characterization has begun. We will report on the commissioning status and near-term future plans for the facility.
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The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at Fermilab: Science Program

1447

P. Piot, E.R. Harms, S. Henderson, J.R. Leibfritz, S. Nagaitsev, V.D. Shiltsev, A. Valishev
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Funding: This work is supported by DOE contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC
The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) currently in commissioning phase at Fermilab is foreseen to support a broad range of beam-based experiments to study fundamental limitations to beam intensity and to develop novel approaches to particle-beam generation, acceleration and manipulation. ASTA incorporates a superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) linac coupled to a flexible high-brightness photoinjector. The facility also includes a small-circumference storage ring capable of storing electrons or protons. This report summarizes the facility capabilities, and provide an overview of the accelerator-science researches to be enabled.

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TUPME042

Planned High-gradient Flat-beam-driven Dielectric Wakefield Experiments at the Fermilab’s Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator

1451

F. Lemery, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
P. Piot, J. Zhu
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
J. Zhu
CAEP/IFP, Mainyang, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

In beam driven dielectric wakefield acceleration (DWA), high-gradient short-wavelength accelerating fields are generally achieved by employing dielectric-lined waveguides (DLWs) with small aperture which constraints the beam sizes. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using a low-energy (50-MeV) flat beams to induce high-gradient wakes in a slab-symmetric DLW. We demonstrate via numerical simulations the possibility to produce axial electric field with peak amplitude close to 0.5 GV/m. Our studies are carried out using the Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) photoinjector beamline. We finally discuss a possible experiment that could be performed in the ASTA photoinjector and eventually at higher energies.

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TUPME043

Temporal Electron-bunch Shaping from a Photoinjector for Advanced Accelerator Applications

1454

F. Lemery, P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
P. Piot
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Advanced-accelerator applications often require the production of bunches with shaped temporal distributions. An example of sought-after shape is a linearly-ramped current profile that can be improve the transformer ratio in beam-driven acceleration, or produce energy-modulated pulse for, e.g., the subsequent generation of THz radiation. Typically, such a shaping is achieved by manipulating ultra-relativistic electron bunches. In this contribution we discuss the possibility of shaping the bunch via photoemission and demonstrate using particle-in-cell simulations the production of MeV electron bunches with quasi-ramped current profile.

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TUPME044

Planned High-brightness Channeling Radiation Experiment at Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator

1457

B.R. Blomberg, D. Mihalcea, H. Panuganti, P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
C.A. Brau, B.K. Choi, W.E. Gabella, B.L. Ivanov, M.H. Mendenhall
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
C.W. Lynn
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
P. Piot, T. Sen
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
W.S. Wagner
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of Radiation Physics, Dresden, Germany

Funding: Work supported by the DARPA Axis program under contract AXIS N66001-11-1-4196
In this contribution we describe the technical details and experimental setup of our study aimed at producing high-brightness channeling radiation (CR) at Fermilab’s new user facility the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA). In the ASTA photoinjector area electrons are accelerated up to 40-MeV and focused to a sub-micron spot on a ~40 micron thick carbon diamond, the electrons channel through the crystal and emit CR up to 80-KeV. Our study utilizes ASTA’s long pulse train capabilities and ability to preserve ultra-low emittance, to produce the desired high average brightness.

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WEPRO007

Nanometer Scale Coherent Current Modulation via a Nanotip Cathode Array and Emittance Exchange

1952

E.A. Nanni, W.S. Graves
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
P. Piot
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Funding: NSF DMR-1042342, DARPA N66001-11-1-4192
We present PIC simulations of electron bunches with nm scale longitudinal modulation produced using a compact 2-20 MeV LINAC. The modulation is initially imparted in the transverse dimension of the electron bunch with a nano-patterned photo-emitter in a X-band RF gun with 2 MeV exit energy. The electron bunch passes through a 1 m standing wave X-band LINAC which can raise the beam energy up to 20 MeV. The transverse modulation is exchanged into the longitudinal dimension using a double dog-leg emittance exchange setup with a 5 cell RF deflector cavity. The modulation pitch can be tuned by adjusting the spacing of the nano-patterned photo-emitter or magnification of the transverse pitch with electron optics. The electron beam parameters are optimized to produce coherent XFEL radiation upon interacting with a “laser undulator”.

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THPRO033

Electron-bunch Shaping for Coherent Compton Scattering

4107

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J.E. Thorne, P. Piot, I. Viti
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
P. Piot
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Producing high-quality x rays could have important applications to high-precision medical imaging and national security. Inverse Compton scattering involving the head-on collision of a relativistic electron bunch with a high-power laser offers a viable path toward the realization of a compact x-ray source. A method consisting in reflecting a short-pulse laser onto a “relativistic mirror” (a moving thin sheet of electrons) has been proposed and recently demonstrated as a way to enhance the back-scattered photon flux by operating in the coherent regime. In this contribution we present particle-in-cell numerical simulations of the inverse Compton scattering process and especially investigate the impact of the laser-pulse and electron-beam distributions that could substantially improve the x-ray production via coherent emission.

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THPRO086

Flat-beam Generation and Compression at Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator

3086

J. Zhu, D. Mihalcea, P. Piot
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
D. Mihalcea, P. Piot, C.R. Prokop
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

An important asset of Fermilab’s Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) is its ability to generate flat beams with high-transverse emittance ratios. In this paper, we present a practical design and simulation of flat beam generation and compression with various bunch charges up to 3.2 nC. Emittance growth within the round-to-flat beam transformer and the impact of low energy compression is discussed in detail. Finally, it is found that the compressed flat beam could provide exciting opportunities in the field of advanced acceleration techniques and accelerator-based light source.

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TUPME060

Simulation Analysis on Micro-Bunched Density Modulation from a Slit-Masked Chicane

1509

Y.-M. Shin, P. Piot, C.R. Prokop
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
D.R. Broemmelsiek, E.R. Harms, A.H. Lumpkin, J. Ruan, J.C.T. Thangaraj
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Funding: This work was supported by the DOE contract No. DEAC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC.
Pre-bunching a beam at a resonance condition with an accelerating structure vastly improves performance of beam-driven accelerators and undulators since it enhances a beam-wave coupling. We plan to test a slit-mask micro-buncher at the chicane of Fermilab-ASTA 50 MeV beamline in the effort of advanced accelerator research. With the chicane design parameters (bending angle (alpha) of 18 degree, R56 ~ - 0.18 m, and bending radius of ~ 0.78 m), analytic model showed that a slit-mask with W (period) = 900 um and a (aperture width) = 300 um (30 % transparency) generates 100 um spaced micro-bunches with 5 ~ 6 % correlated energy spread. Two kinds of combined beamline simulation, CST-PS+Impact-Z and Elegant+Shower, including space charge and CSR effects, showed that a 900 um spaced, 300 um wide slits placed in the middle of chicane splits 20 pC – 1 nC bunches into ~ 100 um spaced micro-bunches. It is possible that a further optimization of mask design creates sub-100 fs micro-bunches, which is currently under development.
*[1] NIM A 375, 597 (1996)
[2] PRL 101, 054801 (2008)
[3] Y.-E Sun, P. R. G. Piot, FEMILAB-CONF-08-408-APC
** ASTA: Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator

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WEPRI058

Commissioning Status of the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at Fermilab

2615

J. Ruan, R. Andrews, C.M. Baffes, D.R. Broemmelsiek, K. Carlson, B. Chase, M.D. Church, D.J. Crawford, E. Cullerton, J.S. Diamond, N. Eddy, D.R. Edstrom, E.R. Harms, A. Hocker, A.S. Johnson, A.L. Klebaner, M.J. Kucera, J.R. Leibfritz, A.H. Lumpkin, J.N. Makara, S. Nagaitsev, O.A. Nezhevenko, D.J. Nicklaus, L.E. Nobrega, P.S. Prieto, J. Reid, J.K. Santucci, G. Stancari, D. Sun, M. Wendt, S.J. Wesseln
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Funding: *Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) is under construction at Fermilab. This accelerator will consist of a photo-electron gun, injector, ILC-type cryomodules, and multiple downstream beam-lines. Its purpose is to be a user-based facility for Advanced Accelerator R&D. . Following the successful commissioning of the photoinjector gun, a Tesla style 8-cavity cryomodule and a high gradient capture cavity have been cooled down to 2 K and powered commissioning and performance characterization has begun. We will report on the commissioning status and near-term future plans for the facility.

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