Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
KEK, Ibaraki
Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) as synchrotron light source is planned to construct in KEK. Before the construction of full-set of ERL, compact ERL to study the accelerator technologies will be constructed. For the injector, a high voltage photoemission gun with DC operation and measurement systems for the low emittance beam will be developed. In order to observe bunch length and longitudinal beam profile, we have designed a single-cell deflecting cavity with 2.6 GHz dipole mode. We describe the optimization of the cavity, mechanical design and the measurements results with simulation.
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Nanometer resolution Beam Position Monitors have been developed to measure and control beam position stability at the interaction point region of ATF2. The position of the beam focused has to be measured within a few nanometer resolution at the interaction point. In order to achieve this performance, electronics for this BPM was developed. Every component of the electronics have been simulated and checked by local test and using beam signal. We will explain each component and define their working range. Then, we will show the performance of the electronics measured with beam signal.
JAI, Oxford
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
UCL, London
KNU, Deagu
Fermilab, Batavia
PLS, Pohang
The Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) in KEK, Japan, is a prototype scaled demonstrator system for the final focus required for a lepton linear collider. The ATF2 beam-line is instrumented with a total of 38 C and S band resonant cavity beam position monitors (BPM) with associated mixer electronics and digitizers. The current status of the BPM system is described, with a focus on operational techniques and performance.
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
JAI, Egham, Surrey
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The demonstration of the stability of the position of the focused beam is a primary goal of the ATF2 project. We have installed a laser interferometer system that will eventually correct the measurement of high-precision Beam Position Monitors used in the ATF2 Final Focus Steering Feedback for mechanical motion or vibrations. Here, we describe the installed system and present preliminary data on the short- and long-term mechanical stability of the BPM system.
KEK, Ibaraki
Sokendai, Ibaraki
RISE, Tokyo
Okayama University, Okayama
We have developed a compact X-ray source based on inverse Compton scattering of an electron beam and a laser pulse, which is stacked in an optical super-cavity, at LUCX accelerator in KEK. The accelerator consists of a photo-cathode rf-gun and an S-band accelerating tube and produces the multi-bunch electron beam with 100 bunches, 0.5nC bunch charge and 40MeV beam energy. It is planned to upgrade the accelerator and the super-cavity in order to increase the number of X-rays. A new RF gun with high mode separation and high Q value and a new klystron for the gun will be installed to provide good compensation with a high-intensity multi-bunch electron beam. A new optical super-cavity consisting of 4 mirrors is also being developed to increase the stacking power in the cavity and to reduce the laser size at the focal point. The first targets are to produce a multi-bunch electron beam with 1000 bunches, 0.5 nC bunch charge and 5 MeV beam energy in low energy mode and 100bunches, 2 nC and 40 MeV in high energy mode to generate X-rays by inverse Compton scattering. In this paper, the status and future plan of the accelerator will be reported.
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
KEK, Ibaraki
AIST, Tsukuba
We are developing an Yb fiber laser system that drives an ERL photocathode gun. An Yb fiber laser is expected to have both high stability and high output power required for the drive laser of an ERL photocathode gun. First we started to develop an Yb fiber laser oscillator with a high repetition rate up to 1.3 GHz that is the RF frequency of a superconducting accelerating cavity and then a 30W preamplifier using an Yb doped photonic crystal fiber. We report our recent progress in this development.
KEK, Ibaraki
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
Tohoku University, School of Scinece, Sendai
Compact ERL (cERL) is a test accelerator to establish accelerator technologies for GeV-class synchrotron light source based on ERL (Energy Recovery Linac), and will be constructed in KEK. It consists of an injector with photo cathode 500 kV DC gun, a merger section, super conducting RF cavities for acceleration and energy recovery, return loops, and a beam dump. To operate and test the photo cathode gun before installing it in the cERL injector, Gun Test Facility is constructing in KEK, AR south experimental hall. The Gun Test Facility has two photo cathode guns, 200 kV gun developed by Nagoya University and new 500 kV gun which is being developed, laser system to be emitted electrons from photo cathode surface, beam transport lines, and a beam diagnostics system. The diagnostics system consists of a double slit emittance measurement system, beam position monitors, transverse profile monitors, and a deflecting cavity to measure the bunch length and the longitudinal profile. In this presentation, the progress in the construction of the Gun Test Facility and the beam dynamics simulation will be presented.
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
KEK, Ibaraki
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
Nagoya University, Nagoya
A 500-kV, 10-mA photocathode DC gun has been designed and is now under fabrication by the collaboration efforts of JAEA, KEK, Hiroshima Univ. and Nagoya Univ. The Cockcroft-Walton generator and the ceramic insulator are installed upright in the SF6 tank. We have adopted a multiple-stacked cylindrical ceramic insulator, because this type of ceramic insulator has shown good stability and robustness at the 200-kV Nagoya polarized gun and the 250-kV JAEA FEL gun. The vacuum chamber, the guard-rings and the support-rod electrode are made of titanium alloy with very low out-gassing and robustness to high voltage performances. The Cockcroft-Walton generator, the ceramic insulator, the vacuum chamber and the guard-rings have been assembled and a high-voltage test has been successfully done with up to 550kV. The high-voltage test and up-to-date status of the gun development will be presented in detail.
Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai
KEK, Ibaraki
Tohoku University, School of Scinece, Sendai
We have studied a beam orbit tilt monitor for stabilizing the beam orbit in ATF2. Once we can measure a beam orbit tilt with high precision at one point, we can relate this data with the beam position profile at the focal point. A tilt monitor is composed of a single rectangular sensor cavity and a waveguide to extract the signal. In the sensor cavity, there is the most basic resonant mode called monopole mode. This monopole mode is perpendicular to the nominal beam axis, and excited by the beam tilt. We extract this monopole mode. As the result, the amplitude of the extracted signal is proportional to the tilt angle. The tilt monitor is almost indepnedent with beam postion, so we can get the tilt date independently. According to our simulation, the sensitivity is estimated about 35nrad in the vertical direction. The prototype was completed and installed in the test area on the ATF2 beamline. The first beam test will be performed in December 2009. We will report this result and future update plan.
KEK, Ibaraki
KEK manages two synchrotron radiation sources, Photon Factory storage ring (PF-ring) of 2.5 GeV and Photon Factory advanced ring (PF-AR) of 6.5 GeV. These rings share an injector linac with the two main rings of KEK B-factory, 8-GeV HER and 3.5-GeV LER. Recently, the linac has succeeded in a pulse by pulse multi-energy acceleration. A top-up operation of PF-ring has been realized as the simultaneous continuous injection to the 3 rings, PF-ring, HER and LER. Development of new injection scheme using a pulsed sextupole magnet continues aiming at practical use in the top-up operation. A rapid-polarization-switching device consisting of tandem two APPLE-II type undulators has been developed at PF-ring. The first undulator was installed in 2008, and the second one will be installed in 2010 summer. PF-AR, operated in a single-bunch mode at all times, has been suffered from sudden lifetime drop phenomena attributed to dust trapping for many years. Using the movable electrodes installed for experiment, we confirmed that the discharge created by the electrode was followed by the dust trapping, and succeeded in a visual observation of luminous dust streaking in front of CCD cameras.
KEK, Ibaraki
UVSOR, Okazaki
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
Yamaguchi University, Ube-Shi
Nagoya University, Nagoya
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
Tohoku University, School of Scinece, Sendai
AIST, Tsukuba
Future synchrotron light source using a 5-GeV-class energy recovery linac (ERL) is under proposal by our Japanese collaboration team, and we are conducting active R&D efforts for that. We are developing super-brilliant DC photocathode guns, two types of cryomodules for both injector and main superconducting linacs, 1.3 GHz high CW-power rf sources, and other important components. We are also constructing a compact ERL for demonstrating the recirculation of low-emittance, high-current beams using those key components. We present our recent progress in this project.
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
KEK, Ibaraki
ISIR, Osaka
IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
Aim of Super-conducting Test Facility (STF) at KEK is demonstrating technologies for International Linear Collider. In STF, one full RF unit will be developed and beam acceleration test will be made. In super-conducting accelerator, precise RF control in phase and power is essential because the input RF power should be balanced to beam accelerating power. To demonstrate the system feasibility, the beam accelerating test is an important step in R&D phase of STF and ILC. To provide ILC format beam for STF, we develop an electron source based on photo-cathode L-band RF gun. To generate ILC format beam, we developed a laser system based on Yb fiber oscillator in 40.6 MHz. The pulse repetition is decreased by picking pulses in 2.7 MHz, which meets ILC bunch spacing, 364 ns. The pulse is then amplified by YLF laser up to 8 uJ per pulse in 1 mm. The light is converted to 266 nm by SHG and FHG. Finally, 1.5 uJ per pulse is obtained and 3.2 nC bunch charge will be made. We report the basic performance of the laser system from the accelerator technology point of a view.