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CEBAF Injector Achieved World's Best Beam Quality for Three Simultaneous Beams with a Wide Range of Bunch Charges
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- R. Kazimi, K. Beard, F.J. Benesch, A. Freyberger, J.M. Grames, T. Hiatt, A. Hutton, G.A. Krafft, L. Merminga, M. Poelker, M. Spata, M. Tiefenback, B.C. Yunn, Y. Zhang
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
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The CEBAF accelerator simultaneously provides three 499 MHz interleaved continuous electron beams spanning 5 decades in beam intensity (a few nA to 200 uA) to three experimental halls. The typical three-user physics program became more challenging when a new experiment, G0, was approved for more than six times higher bunch charge than is routine. The G0 experiment requires up to 8 million electrons per bunch (at a reduced repetition rate of 31 MHz) while the lowest current hall operates at 100 electrons per bunch simultaneously. This means a bunch destined to one hall may experience significant space charge forces while the next bunch, for another hall, is well below the space charge limit. This disparity in beam intensity is to be attained while maintaining best ever values in the beam quality, including final relative energy spread (<2.5x 10-5 rms) and transverse emittance (<1 mm-mrad norm. rms). The difficulties related to space charge emerge in the 10m long, 100 keV section of the CEBAF injector during initial beam production and acceleration. A series of changes were introduced in the CEBAF injector to meet the new requirements, including changes in the injector setup, adding new magnets, replacing lasers used for the photocathode and modifying typical laser parameters, stabilizing RF systems, and changes to standard operating procedures. In this paper, we will discuss all these modifications in some detail including the excellent agreement between the experimental results and detailed simulations. We will also present some of our operational results.
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