Author: Vicario, C.
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THPC095 Commissioning Status of the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility 3110
 
  • T. Schietinger, M. Aiba, S. Bettoni, B. Beutner, A. Falone, R. Ganter, R. Ischebeck, F. Le Pimpec, N. Milas, G.L. Orlandi, M. Pedrozzi, E. Prat, S. Reiche, C. Vicario
    PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
  
  The Swiss­FEL in­jec­tor test fa­cil­i­ty at the Paul Scher­rer In­sti­tute has been in op­er­a­tion since Au­gust 2010. Its pri­ma­ry goal is the demon­stra­tion of a high-bright­ness elec­tron beam as it will be re­quired to drive the Swiss­FEL main linac. The in­jec­tor fur­ther serves as a plat­form for the de­vel­op­ment and val­i­da­tion of ac­cel­er­a­tor com­po­nents need­ed for the Swiss­FEL pro­ject. We give an overview of re­cent com­mis­sion­ing ac­tiv­i­ties at about 130 MeV beam en­er­gy, with par­tic­u­lar em­pha­sis on re­sults from op­tics match­ing stud­ies and emit­tance mea­sure­ments, the lat­ter ob­tained with dif­fer­ent op­tics-based meth­ods. A five-cell trans­verse-de­flect­ing cav­i­ty al­lows stud­ies of the lon­gi­tu­di­nal bunch charge dis­tri­bu­tion and slice emit­tance. Bunch length mea­sure­ments will be­come the focus of in­ter­est after the in­stal­la­tion of a mag­net­ic com­pres­sion chi­cane, cur­rent­ly sched­uled for the sum­mer of 2011.