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| TUPMA042 | Beam Parameters of the SCSS Prototype Accelerator Designed by PARMELA and Comparison with Measured Values | 169 |
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The 250 MeV prototype facility of the SCSS X-FEL project was constructed in the Octorber 2005 and the machine commissioning was started in May 2006. One month later, we have succeeded in confirming the amplification of the synchrotron radiation. The electron beam parameters, such as peak current and emittance, have been designed and estimated using PARMELA. In contrast to other X-FEL projects, the SCSS injector uses a thermionic pulsed electron gun [1]. Compared with RF photocathode guns, the thermionic gun is stable and easy to handle. Its peak current, however, is smaller, and the compression of the electron bunch is necessary at early stage of the low beam energy injector. In this report, we compare the simulation and measured values, such as a bunch length and projected emittance, on the SCSS prototype accelerator. The measured beam parameters, after the bunch compression procedure and emittance degradation due to space charge, show fairly good agreement with the simulation.
[1] K. Togawa, et al., “Emittance Measurement on the CeB6 Electron Gun for the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source”, Proceedings of the 2004 FEL Conference, (2004)351-354, URL: http://www. JACoW.org. |
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| WEPMA048 | Beam Position Monitor at SCSS Prototype Accelerator | 387 |
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| The SCSS X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) project is in progress at SPring-8. The SCSS prototype accelerator for VUV-FEL has been constructed and is in operation. The required resolution of the beam position is less than 1um for XFEL (10um for VUV-FEL). A cavity RF-BPM (Radio Frequency Beam Position Monitor) was developed for the SCSS accelerator based on the past experiment in which the position resolution of several 10nm was achieved. In the prototype accelerator, the beam-based calibration method of the RF-BPM was established. An experiment to evaluate the position resolution was also performed, and the preliminary result was obtained to be less than 5um. This result is sufficient for VUV-FEL. The RF-BPM made important contributions to the tuning of the prototype accelerator such as beam optics measurements and VUV-FEL amplification. By using RF-BPM data, for example, the envelope of the beam trajectory was visualized and the beam was straightly passed through undulators. As a result, VUV-FEL amplification was observed in the wavelength region of 40-60nm. |