Author: Wendt, M.
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THPD25 Feasibility of Diagnostics Undulator Studies at ASTA 591
 
  • A.H. Lumpkin, M. Wendt
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • J.M. Byrd
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The high-power electron beams for the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) facility involve up to 3000 micropulses with up to 3.2 nC per micropulse in a 1-ms macropulse. With beam energies projected from 45 to 800 MeV the need for non-intercepting diagnostics for beam size, position, energy, and bunch length is clear. Besides the rf BPMs, optical synchrotron radiation (OSR), and optical diffraction radiation (ODR) techniques already planned, we propose the use of undulator radiation from a dedicated device for diagnostics with a nominal period of 4-5 cm, a tunable field parameter K, and a length of several meters. We propose time resolving the e-beam properties within the macropulse by viewing the undulator radiation with standard gated ICCD's (size and position) and a streak camera coupled to an optical spectrometer (energy, bunch length, and phase). The feasibility of extending such techniques in the visible regime at a beam energy of 125 MeV into the UV and VUV regimes with beam energies of 250 and 500 MeV will be presented.