Title :
Extended version of an S-band RF gun
Author :
Park, Sanghyun ; Pellegrini, Claudio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A 4.5 MeV RF gun has been in operation at UCLA as a part of a 20 MeV linac. To improve the photoelectron beam parameters without changing the major characteristics of the driving laser and RF systems, a revised and extended version of the present RF gun has been investigated. The new gun consists of 6 full cells terminated at either end by one half cell each. The gun operates in π-mode at 2.856 GHz. Accelerating fields and mode structures have been studied, and based on this, particle dynamics has been simulated. An aluminum prototype has been built for cold tests. Description of the gun is presented along with initial computational and experimental results
Keywords :
beam handling techniques; electron accelerators; electron guns; electron sources; linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; 2.856 GHz; 20 MeV; 4.5 MeV; Al; Al prototype; RF systems; S-band RF gun; UCLA; accelerating fields; cold tests; driving laser; extended version; injector; linac; mode structures; particle dynamics; photoelectron beam parameters; Acceleration; Brightness; Computational modeling; Electron beams; Klystrons; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Radio frequency; Resonance; Space charge;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1203-1
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1993.308849
