SLAC, Menlo Park, California
DESY, Hamburg
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is a SASE x-ray free-electron laser project presently under construction at SLAC. The injector section from RF photocathode gun through the first bunch compressor chicane was installed during the Fall of 2006. The first bunch compressor chicane is located at 250 MeV and nominally compresses a 1-nC electron bunch from an rms length of about 1 mm to 0.2 mm. The degree of compression is highly adjustable using RF phasing and also chicane magnetic field variations. Transverse phase space and bunch length diagnostics are located immediately after the chicane. We present measurements and simulations of the longitudinal and transverse phase space after the chicane in various beam conditions, including extreme compression where coherent radiation effects are expected to be striking.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
By analysing the pulse to pulse intensity fluctuations of the radiation emitted by a charge particle in the incoherent part of the spectrum, it is possible to extract information about the spatial distribution of the beam. At the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we have developed and tested a simple scheme based on this principle that allows for the absolute measurement of the bunch length. A description of the method and the experimental results are presented.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
One of the action items for the damping rings of the International Linear Collider (ILC) is to compute the broad-band impedance and, from it, the threshold to the microwave instability. For the ILC it is essential that the operating current be below threshold. Operating above threshold would mean that the longitudinal emittance of the beam would be increased. More seriously, above threshold there is the possibility of time dependent variation in beam properties (e.g. the "sawtooth" effect) that can greatly degrade collider performance. In this report, we present the status of our study including calculations of: an impedance budget, a pseudo-Green's function suitable for Haissinski equation and instability calculations, and instability calculations themselves.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The development of an electron cloud in the vacuum chambers of high intensity positron and proton storage rings may limit machine performance. The suppression of electrons in a magnet is a challenge for the positron damping ring of the International Linear Collider (ILC) as well as the Large Hadron Collider. Simulation show that grooved surfaces can significantly reduce the electron yield in a magnet. Some of the secondary electrons emitted from the grooved surface return to the surface within a few gyrations, resulting in a low effective secondary electron yield (SEY) of below 1.0 A triangular surface is an effective, technologically attractive mitigation with a low SEY and a weak dependence on the scale of the corrugations and the external magnetic field. A chamber with triangular grooved surface is proposed for the dipole and wiggler sections of the ILC and will be tested in PEP-II in 2007. The strategy of electron cloud control in ILC and the optimization of the grooved chamber such as the SEY, impedance as well as the manufacturing of the chamber, are also discussed.
SLAC-PUB-11933 & NIMA in publication