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                T. Inagaki, T. Asaka, T. Hara, T. Hiraiwa, N. Hosoda, E. Iwai, C. Kondo, H. Maesaka, T. Ohshima, H. TanakaRIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
H. Dewa, T. Magome, Y. Minagawa, T. SakuraiJASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan
T. FukuiRIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan
S. HashimotoLASTI, Hyogo, Japan
S.I. Inoue, K. Kajimoto, S. Nakata, T. Seno, H. Sumitomo, R. Takesako, S. Tanaka, R. Yamamoto, M. YoshiokaSES, Hyogo-pref., Japan
K. YanagidaJASRI, Hyogo, Japan
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        |  | A compact and low-cost 1 GeV injector linac was designed and constructed to provide injection beams to the soft X-ray synchrotron radiation facility NewSUBARU instead of the SPring-8 injector system, which will be shutdown. The total length of the injector linac needs to be less than 70 m to fit into the existing tunnel. To this end, an RF electron gun with a gridded thermionic cathode directly attached to a 238 MHz RF cavity was developed and adopted. The 500 keV, 0.6 ns, 1 nC beam emitted from the cavity is compressed to 3 ps by velocity bunching driven by a 476 MHz RF cavity and a S-band RF structure. The short-pulsed beams are accelerated up to 1 GeV with 16 C-band RF structures. In the C-band accelerator section, the klystron output of 50 MW is multiplied 4 times by a pulse compressor and fed to the 4 RF structures to generate a high accelerating field of 31 MV/m. A low-level RF system consisting of a MTCA.4 based high-speed digitizers and RF frontend boards has been constructed. This injector system is used at the 3 GeV SR facility currently under construction in Sendai. In this paper, we report the design outline and the operational performance of the injector system. |  |