• T. Miyajima, Y. Honda, Y. Kobayashi, T.M. Mitsuhashi, T. Muto, S. Sakanaka, M. Shimada
  KEK, Ibaraki
• R. Hajima
  JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki

The compact ERL, cERL, is a project to test an energy recovery linac (ERL) with 60 MeV and 100 mA electron beam to generate synchrotron radiation with smaller emittance and shorter pulse length. The design work of the cERL injector has been carried out using a space charge simulation code. The injector consists of 500 kV photo cathode DC gun, two solenoid magnets, buncher cavity, three super conducting RF cavities and merger section to return pass. It generates an electron beam with -77 pC bunch charge and 1.3 GHz repetition rate. Our target value of emittance is less than 1 mm mrad with the bunch length of 1 mm at the exit of the injector. The parameter optimization of the injector using the multi objected method has been carried out to obtain the minimum emittance. The simulation results will be presented in detail.

• R. Hajima
  JAEA/FEL, Ibaraki-ken
• Y. Honda, T. Miyajima, T. Muto, M. Yamamoto
  KEK, Ibaraki
• H. Iijima, R. Nagai, N. Nishimori
  JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
• M. Kuriki
  HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
• T. Nakanishi, S. Okumi
  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. All the vacuum chambers are made of titanium alloy with very low out-gassing. The Cockcroft-Walton generator, the ceramic insulator, the vacuum chambers will be fabricated by April 2009 and a high-voltage test will be started soon later. Up-to-date status of the gun development will be presented in detail.

• R. Nagai, R. Hajima, H. Iijima, N. Nishimori
  JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
• Y. Honda, T. Miyajima, T. Muto
  KEK, Ibaraki

A 250-kV, 50-mA electron gun has been developed at JAEA for establishing fundamental technologies to generate and evaluate a ultra-small emittance beam, which is required for future ERLs such as a coherent X-ray source and a high-flux gamma-ray source. The gun has been assembled and the first photo-current was obtained from a cathode of NEA-GaAs. Apparatuses for beam measurements has been installed. We plan to measure the transverse emittance by a double-slit configuration and the temporal profile with a deflecting cavity.

• S. Sakanaka, M. Akemoto, T. Aoto, D.A. Arakawa, A. Enomoto, S. Fukuda, K. Furukawa, T. Furuya, K. Haga, K. Hara, K. Harada, T. Honda, Y. Honda, H. Honma, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, M. Isawa, E. Kako, T. Kasuga, H. Kawata, M. Kikuchi, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Kojima, T. Matsumoto, H. Matsushita, S. Michizono, T.M. Mitsuhashi, T. Miura, T. Miyajima, T. Muto, S. Nagahashi, T. Naito, H. Nakai, H. Nakajima, E. Nakamura, K. Nakanishi, T. Nogami, S. Noguchi, T. Obina, S. Ohsawa, T. Ozaki, S. Sasaki, K. Satoh, M. Satoh, T. Shidara, M. Shimada, T. Shioya, T. Shishido, T. Suwada, T. Takahashi, R. Takai, Y. Tanimoto, M. Tawada, M. Tobiyama, K. Tsuchiya, T. Uchiyama, K. Umemori, K. Watanabe, M. Yamamoto, S. Yamamoto, Y. Yamamoto
  KEK, Ibaraki
• R. Hajima, H. Iijima, N. Kikuzawa, E.J. Minehara, R. Nagai, N. Nishimori, M. Sawamura
  JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
• H. Hanaki
  JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
• A. Ishii, I. Ito, T. Kawasaki, H. Kudo, N. Nakamura, H. Sakai, S. Shibuya, K. Shinoe, T. Shiraga, H. Takaki
  ISSP/SRL, Chiba
• M. Katoh
  UVSOR, Okazaki
• M. Kuriki
  HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
• S. Matsuba
  Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
• K. Torizuka, D. Yoshitomi
  AIST, Tsukuba

Future synchrotron light source project using an energy recovery linac (ERL) is under proposal at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in collaboration with several Japanese institutes such as the JAEA and the ISSP. We are on the way to develop such key technologies as the super-brilliant DC photo-injector and superconducting cavities that are suitable for both CW and high-current operations. We are also promoting the construction of the Compact ERL for demonstrating such key technologies. We report the latest status of our project, including update results from our photo-injector and from both superconducting cavities for the injector and the main linac, as well as the progress in the design and preparations for constructing the Compact ERL.