Muskopf, Ryan
THP051
Low Energy Accelerator Development Facility upgrades
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The Low Energy Accelerator Development (LEAD) Facility is a part of the Accelerators Facilities Division (AFD) of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The facility has three capabilities and runs a program specifically targeting new collaborations for user-driven research. The first and the oldest of the capabilities is the Ultrafast Diffraction (UED) Capability. The other two are radiation-shielded bunkers. At the UED the deployment of a new stable solid-state modulator and klystron is in progress. The beamline updates are now going into place for a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory electron irradiator beamline for Single Event Effects (SEE) testing; and the capability for UED testing is being expanded. In both bunkers (153 and 77 sq. m) a range of cooling, air, electrical, and RF capabilities are presently being introduced. The first bunker will accommodate the Electron Cyclotron Resonance (eCRA) Demonstrator (a project together with Omega-P, R&D). The deployment is expected to start in the last quarter of 2025. The second bunker will accommodate the superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) photo-gun (a project by Euclid Techlabs, LLC) to be the electron beam source for an envisioned Ultrafast Electron Microscopy (UEM) Capability.
  • S. Shchelkunov, A. Lueangaramwong, G. Stenby III, J. Alzamora, K. Roy, M. Babzien, M. Palmer, M. Peniera, M. Fedurin, T. Ilardi, W. Li, Y. Sakai, A. Simmonds, K. Kusche
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • L. Wallace
    Stony Brook University
  • V. Janucik
    St. John's University
  • R. Muskopf
    SUNY New Paltz
Paper: THP051
DOI: reference for this paper: 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-THP051
About:  Received: 05 Aug 2025 — Revised: 14 Aug 2025 — Accepted: 14 Aug 2025 — Issue date: 28 Jan 2026
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