PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
Funding: This work was supported by the MEST (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology) and the POSCO (POhang iron and Steel making COmpany) in Korea.
The PLS-II, the major upgrade program of the PLS (Pohang Light Source, a 2.5-GeV 3rd generation light source), is planned at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory. The PLS 2.5-GeV linear accelerator, being the full-energy injector for the PLS storage ring, should be upgraded to provide the beam energy of 3 GeV. For the PLS-II linac, we are going to establish a dual electron gun system in which two guns will be on the accelerator beamline with a bending magnet enabling immediate switching of guns. The dual gun system is expected to achieve high reliability for the top-up injection to the PLS-II storage ring. Also the gun will be upgraded to provide the beam energy of 200 keV and a pulse high-voltage modulator will be constructed. Fifteen-section PFNs will be connected in series to make final impedance of approximately 17.3 ohm. A new modulator applying the inverter technology will be used to charge the PFN and obtain more stable charging performances. In this article the authours would like to report on the design status of the accelerator beamline and inverter modulator for the dual gun system.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
The Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. After the completion of the Pohang Light Source (PLS) construction in 1994, the PLS started user service with two beamlines in 1995. The PLS energy was 2.0 GeV. The first major upgrade of the PLS had been done from 2000 to 2002, in which operation energy of the PLS was increased from 2.0 GeV to 2.5 GeV. The number of beamlines has been steadily increased since the start of user service. The number of beamlines currently in service is 28. Three beamlines are under construction. Number of users and performed experiments in 2007 were respectively 2553 and 837. Average impact factor of published papers is over 3.0, which is one of the best among Korean research institutes. Based on such success, the PAL is pursuing the second upgrade plan, called the PLS-II. The PLS will be upgraded its energy from 2.5 GeV to 3.0 GeV. With the upgrade, it will be possible to construct ten more insertion devices. The brightness of the PLS-II will be more than a order higher compared to the current PLS. In this presentation, details of the PLS-II project will be introduced.
This work was supported by the MEST (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology) and the POSCO (POhang iron and Steel making COmpany) in Korea.
