Ben-Zvi, I.
(Ilan Ben-Zvi)

THBOC04 Ampere Average Current Photoinjector and Energy Recovery Linac
Ilan Ben-Zvi, A. Burrill, R. Calaga, P. Cameron, X. Chang, D. Gassner, H. Hahn, A. Hershcovitch, H.C. Hseuh, P. Johnson, D. Kayran, J. Kewisch, R. Lambiase, Vladimir N. Litvinenko, G. McIntyre, A. Nicoletti, J. Rank, T. Roser, J. Scaduto, K. Smith, T. Srinivasan-Rao, K.-C. Wu, A. Zaltsman, Y. Zhao (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York), H. Bluem, A. Burger, Mike Cole, A. Favale, D. Holmes, John Rathke, Tom Schultheiss, A. Todd (AES, Medford, NY), J. Delayen, W. Funk, L. Phillips, Joe Preble (Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia)

High-power Free-Electron Lasers were made possible by advances in superconducting linac operated in an energy-recovery mode, as demonstrated by the spectacular success of the Jefferson Laboratory IR-Demo. In order to get to much higher power levels, say a fraction of a megawatt average power, many technological barriers are yet to be broken. BNL’s Collider-Accelerator Department is pursuing some of these technologies for a different application, that of electron cooling of high-energy hadron beams. I will describe work on CW, high-current and high-brightness electron beams. This will include a description of a superconducting, laser-photocathode RF gun employing a new secondary-emission multiplying cathode and an accelerator cavity, both capable of producing of the order of one ampere average current.

WEBOS04 Potential Use of eRHIC’s ERL for FELs and Light Sources
Vladimir N. Litvinenko, Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York)

One of the design of future electron-hadron collider eRHIC* is based on a 5-10 GeV high current energy-recovery linac (ERL) with possible extension of its energy to 20 GeV. This ERL will operate with high brightness electron beams, which do naturally match requirements for X-ray FELs and other next generation light sources. In this paper we present a number of possible scenarios which use eRHIC ERL in parasitic and dedicated mode for SASE, HGHG and oscillator X-ray FELs. We explore a possibility of optic-free X-ray oscillator in detail.

THPOS56 VISA IB: Ultra-High Bandwidth, High Gain SASE FEL
Gerard Andonian, Ronald Barkley Agustsson, Alex Murokh, Claudio Pellegrini, Sven Reiche, James B Rosenzweig, Gil Travish (UCLA, Los Angeles, California), Marcus Babzien, Ilan Ben-Zvi, Jung Yun Huang, Vladimir N. Litvinenko, Vitaly Yakimenko (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York), Ilario Boscolo, S. Cialdi, Alessandro Flacco (INFN Milano, Milano), Massimo Ferrario, Luigi Palumbo, C. Vicario (INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma))

The results of a high energy-spread SASE FEL experiment, the intermediary experiment linking the VISA I and VISA II projects, are presented. A highly chirped beam (~1.7%) was transported without correction of longitudinal aberrations in the ATF dogleg, and injected into the VISA undulator. The output FEL radiation displayed an uncharacteristicly large bandwidth (~11%) with extremely stable lasing and measured energy of about 2 microJoules. Start-to-end simulations reproduce key features of the measured results and provide an insight into the mechanisms giving rise to such a high bandwidth. These analyses are described as they relate to important considerations for the VISA II experiment.

TUPOS64 High Current Energy Recovery Linac at BNL
Vladimir N. Litvinenko, Donald Barton, D. Beavis, Ilan Ben-Zvi, Michael Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, A. Burrill, R. Calaga, P. Cameron, X. Chang, Roger Connolly, D. Gassner, H. Hahn, A. Hershcovitch, H.C. Hseuh, P. Johnson, D. Kayran, J. Kewisch, R. Lambiase, G. McIntyre, W. Meng, T. C. Nehring, A. Nicoletti, D. Pate, J. Rank, T. Roser, T. Russo, J. Scaduto, K. Smith, T. Srinivasan-Rao, N. Williams, K.-C. Wu, Vitaly Yakimenko, K. Yip, A. Zaltsman, Y. Zhao (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York), H. Bluem, A. Burger, Mike Cole, A. Favale, D. Holmes, John Rathke, Tom Schultheiss, A. Todd (AES, Medford, NY), J. Delayen, W. Funk, L. Phillips, Joe Preble (Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia)

We present the design, the parameters of a small test Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) facility, which is under construction at Collider-Accelerator Department, BNL. This R&D facility has goals to demonstrate CW operation of ERL with average beam current in the range of 0.1 - 1 ampere, combined with very high efficiency of energy recovery. A possibility for future up-grade to a two-pass ERL is considered. The heart of the facility is a 5-cell 700 MHz super-conducting RF linac with HOM damping. Flexible lattice of ERL provides a test-bed for testing issues of transverse and longitudinal instabilities and diagnostics of intense CW e-beam. ERL is also perfectly suited for a far-IR FEL. We present the status and our plans for construction and commissioning of this facility.