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| MOPKF080 | Controlling Emittance Growth in an FEL Beam Conditioner | 503 |
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It has been proposed [*] to 'condition' an electron beam prior to the undulator of a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) by increasing each particle's energy in proportion to the square of its transverse betatron amplitude. This conditioning enhances FEL gain by reducing the axial velocity spread within the electron bunch. Previosly [**] we presented a system that allows conditioning of the beam on a relatively short distance, however, it suffers from projected beam emittance growth to the extent that makes it impractical for application for X-ray FELs. In this paper we extend analysis proposed by A. Wolski for general requirements to the conditioner which does not have such emittance growth. We also present a possible implementation of a beam conditioner consisting of multiple solenoid cells in combination with quadrupole magnets. Simulations show that in such a system the emittance growth can be suppressed to acceptable level, albeit in a longer system.
* A. Sessler et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, 309 (1992).** P. Emma and G. Stupakov. PRSTAB, 6, 030701 (2003). |
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| TUPKF059 | Simulation of Dark Currents in X-band Accelerator Structures | 1081 |
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| In high gradient accelerator structures, such as those used in the main linac of the GLC/NLC, electrons are emitted spontaneously from the structure walls and then move under the influence of the rf fields. In this report we study the behavior of this "dark current" in X-band accelerator structures using a simple particle tracking program and also the particle-in-cell program MAGIC. We address questions such as what is the sensitivity to emission parameters, what fraction of dark current is trapped and reaches to the end of a structure, and what are the temporal, spatial, and spectral distributions of dark current as functions of accelerating gradient. | ||
| WEPLT155 | Effect of Dark Currents on the Accelerated Beam in an X-band Linac | 2200 |
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| X-band accelerating structures operate at surface gradients up to 120-180 MV/m. At these gradients, electron currents are emitted spontaneously from the structure walls ("dark currents") and generate additional electromagnetic fields inside the structure. We estimate the effect of these fields on the accelerated beam in a linac using two methods: a particle-in-cell simulation code MAGIC and a particle tracking code. We use the Fowler-Nordheim dependence of the emitted current on surface electric field with field enhancement factor beta. In simulations we consider geometries of traveling wave structures that have actually been built for the Next Linear Collider project. | ||
| WEPLT156 | Suppression of Microbunching Instability in the Linac Coherent Light Source | 2203 |
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| A microbunching instability driven by longitudinal space charge, coherent synchrotron radiation and linac wakefields is studied for the linac coherent light source (LCLS) accelerator system. Since the uncorrelated (local) energy spread of electron beams generated from a photocathode rf gun is very small, the microbunching gain may be large enough to significantly amplify shot noise fluctuations of the electron beam. The uncorrelated energy spread can be increased by an order of magnitude without degrading the free-electron laser performance to provide strong Landau damping against the instability. We study different damping options in the LCLS and discuss an effective laser heater to minimize the impacts of the instability on the quality of the electron beam. | ||
| WEPLT159 | Linear Vlasov Analysis for Stability of a Bunched Beam | 2212 |
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| We study the linearized Vlasov equation for a bunched beam subject to an arbitrary wake function. Following Oide and Yokoya, the equation is reduced to an integral equation expressed in angle-action coordinates of the distorted potential well. Numerical solution of the equation as a formal eigenvalue problem leads to difficulties, because of singular eigenmodes from the incoherent spectrum. We rephrase the equation so that it becomes non-singular in the sense of operator theory, and has only regular solutions for coherent modes. We report on a code that finds thresholds of instability by detecting zeros of the determinant of the system as they enter the upper-half frequency plane, upon increase of current. Results are compared with a time-domain integration of the nonlinear Vlasov equation, and with experiment, for a realistic wake function for the SLC damping rings. |