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TY - CONF AU - Hui, D. AU - Borland, M. AU - Byrd, J.M. AU - Sun, Y. ED - Pei, Guoxi ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Chin, Yong Ho ED - Fu, Shinian ED - Zhao, Ning TI - Jitter Study for the APS Linac Photo-injector Beam J2 - Proc. of LINAC2018, Beijing, China, 16-21 September 2018 CY - Beijing, China T2 - Linear Accelerator Conference T3 - 29 LA - english AB - The APS Linac photo-injector can deliver high brightness electron beams to the Linac Extension Area (LEA) for beam experiments such as TESSA (Tapering Enhanced Stimulated Superradiant Amplification). Beam jitter in the device-under-test (DUT) area of the LEA can adversely affect the quality of data for such experiments. In this paper, a start-to-end simulation of jitter is studied. Sources of jitter include photo-cathode drive-laser arrival time, laser energy, and RF phases and voltages of the photo-cathode gun and accelerating cavities. It is found that at the DUT the relative mean energy jitter is the most significant concern, and that improvements in the Linac RF voltage stability can help to reduce it. RMS energy spread are more sensitive to the laser timing and charge jitter. The laser timing jitter itself can be compressed by the magnetic chicane by a factor of 5.6. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 647 EP - 651 KW - laser KW - timing KW - linac KW - simulation KW - experiment DA - 2019/01 PY - 2019 SN - 2226-0366 SN - 978-3-95450-194-6 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-TH1A05 UR - http://jacow.org/linac2018/papers/th1a05.pdf ER -