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Nguyen, D.C.

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TH5PFP036	Conceptual Design of a 20 GeV Electron Accelerator for a 50 keV X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Using Emittance Exchange Optics and a Crystallographic Mask	3275
	S.J. Russell, K. Bishofberger, B.E. Carlsten, D.C. Nguyen, E.I. Simakov LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
	At Los Alamos National Laboratory we are actively exploring the feasibility of constructing a 50-keV x-ray free-electron laser. For such a machine to be feasible, we need to limit the cost and size of the accelerator and, as this is intended as a user facility, we would prefer to use proven, conventional accelerator technology. Using recent developments in transverse-to-transverse and transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange optics , , we present a conceptual 20-GeV conventional electron accelerator design capable of producing an electron beam with a normalized transverse emittance as low as 0.2 mm-mrad, a root-mean-square (RMS) beam length of 74 fs, and an RMS energy spread of 0.01%. We also explore the possibility of introducing a crystallographic mask into the beam line. Combined with a transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange optic, we show that such a mask can be used to modulate the electron beam longitudinally to match the x-ray wavelength. This modulation, combined with the very low transverse beam emittance, allows us to not only generate 50-keV x-rays with a 20-GeV electron beam, but also drastically decrease the length of the required undulator. P. Emma, Z. Huang, K. -J. Kim, and P. Piot, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 100702 (2006). **B. E. Carlsten and K. A. Bishofberger, New J. Phys. 8, 286 (2006).

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Conceptual Design of a 20 GeV Electron Accelerator for a 50 keV X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Using Emittance Exchange Optics and a Crystallographic Mask

3275

S.J. Russell, K. Bishofberger, B.E. Carlsten, D.C. Nguyen, E.I. Simakov
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico

At Los Alamos National Laboratory we are actively exploring the feasibility of constructing a 50-keV x-ray free-electron laser. For such a machine to be feasible, we need to limit the cost and size of the accelerator and, as this is intended as a user facility, we would prefer to use proven, conventional accelerator technology. Using recent developments in transverse-to-transverse and transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange optics *, **, we present a conceptual 20-GeV conventional electron accelerator design capable of producing an electron beam with a normalized transverse emittance as low as 0.2 mm-mrad, a root-mean-square (RMS) beam length of 74 fs, and an RMS energy spread of 0.01%. We also explore the possibility of introducing a crystallographic mask into the beam line. Combined with a transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange optic, we show that such a mask can be used to modulate the electron beam longitudinally to match the x-ray wavelength. This modulation, combined with the very low transverse beam emittance, allows us to not only generate 50-keV x-rays with a 20-GeV electron beam, but also drastically decrease the length of the required undulator.

*P. Emma, Z. Huang, K. -J. Kim, and P. Piot, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 100702 (2006).
**B. E. Carlsten and K. A. Bishofberger, New J. Phys. 8, 286 (2006).