Author: Peier, P.
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TUPD32 THz Radiation Diagnostics for Monitoring the Bunch Compression at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility 374
 
  • C. Gerth, B. Schmidt, S. Wesch
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • R. Ischebeck, G.L. Orlandi, P. Peier, V. Schlott
    PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
 
  At the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility, installation of a magnetic chicane for longitudinal bunch compression is foreseen for the first half of 2011. Bunch compression will be accomplished by operating two S-band accelerating structures on-crest and two S-band structures at off-crest RF phases. An X-band structure for the linearization of the longitudinal phase space will be installed at a later stage. The detection of coherent synchrotron radiation or coherent diffraction radiation in the THz range can be used to monitor the bunch compression process and stabilize the RF phases by a beam-based feedback. In this paper, we study the source characteristics of the edge radiation emitted at the 4th dipole of the bunch compressor as well as the diffraction radiation generated by a metallic foil with a hole. Particle tracking simulations were used to model the bunch compression process for different operation modes. The performance of a bunch compression monitor consisting of focusing mirrors and band pass filters has been evaluated by simulating the THz radiation transport of the optical components.