• D. La Civita, P. Craievich, Y.A. Kharoubi, G. Penco
  ELETTRA, Basovizza
• M. Petronio
  DEEI, Trieste

FERMI@Elettra is a soft X-ray fourth generation light source under construction at the ELETTRA laboratory. To characterize the beam phase space by means of measurements of the bunch length and of the transverse slice emittance two deflecting cavities will be positioned at two points in the linac. One will be placed at 250 MeV (low energy), after the first bunch compressor (BC1); the second at 1.2 GeV (high energy), just before the FEL process starts. The Low-Energy RF Deflector consists in a 5 cells, standing wave, normal conducting, RF copper cavity. A single ANSYS model has been developed to perform all of the calculations in a multi-step process. In this paper we discuss and report on results of electromagnetic, thermal, and structural analysis.

• G. Penco, E. Allaria, L. Badano, S. Bassanese, M. Bossi, D. Castronovo, G. Ciani, S. Cleva, P. Craievich, M.B. Danailov, R. De Monte, G. De Ninno, A.A. Demidovich, S. Di Mitri, M. Ferianis, O. Ferrando, S. Ferry, L. Froehlich, G. Gaio, R. Ivanov, M. Lonza, A.A. Lutman, S.V. Milton, M. Petronio, M. Predonzani, F. Rossi, L. Rumiz, C. Scafuri, G. Scalamera, P. Sigalotti, S. Spampinati, C. Spezzani, M. Trovò, M. Veronese
  ELETTRA, Basovizza
• L. Pavlovič
  Uni LJ, Ljubljana

The FERMI@Elettra injector, comprised of a high-gradient, s-band, photo-cathode rf gun, the PC gun driven laser, the first two accelerating sections, controls, and suite of diagnostics has been commissioned in 2009. The electron beam has been characterized in terms of charge, energy, energy spread and transverse emittance, and results are provided in this paper. In early 2010 linac commissioning up to 250MeV continued, and by using the RF deflecting cavity, the slice parameters of the beam have been measured. Moreover, studies on the laser pulse shaping and the relative optimization of the longitudinal ramp profile required by the nominal bunch configuration are presented in this paper.

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• G. Lanfranco, P. Craievich, D. La Civita, G.L. Loda, A.A. Lutman, F. Pradal, G. Sostero, M. Stefanutti
  ELETTRA, Basovizza
• M. Canetti, F. Gangini
  RIAL VACUUM S.p.A, Parma

The FERMI@Elettra project at the ELETTRA Laboratory of Sincrotrone Trieste (ST), currently under construction, will be comprised of a linear accelerator and two Free-Electron-Laser beamlines (FEL1, FEL2). In order to deliver high-intensity VUV and soft X-ray pulses, permanent magnet undulators with 9 mm minimum variable gap will be used. The adopted vacuum chambers will have a 7 by 25 mm² elliptical internal cross-section. While manufacturing the vacuum chamber in aluminum helps reducing the resistive wall wakefield effects, the chamber inner wall surface quality is strongly correlated to the surface roughness wakefield component. We report on the results of the study to improve the wall surface finish and lower the roughness periodicity. The chamber manufacturing status and its alignment mechanism is also presented.