A new high intensity electron beam for wakefield acceleration studies

Author

Conde, M.E. ; Gai, W. ; Jing, C. ; Konecny, R. ; Liu, W. ; Power, J.G. ; Wang, H. ; Yusof, Z.

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

2032

Abstract

A new RF photocathode electron gun and beamline have been built for the study of electron beam driven wakefield acceleration. The one and a half cell L-band gun operates with an electric field on the cathode surface of 80 MV/m, and generates electron bunches with tens of nanocoulombs of charge and rms bunch lengths of a few picoseconds. The beam diagnostics include a Cherenkov radiator and streak-camera for bunch length measurements, YAG screens for beam profile, integrating charge transformers (ICTs) for bunch charge, an energy spectrometer, and a pepper-pot plate for measurement of the transverse emittance. Measurements of the beam properties at various bunch charges are presented.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; accelerator RF systems; electron beams; electron guns; particle beam bunching; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam dynamics; photocathodes; streak cameras; wakefield accelerators; Cherenkov radiator; L-band gun; RF photocathode electron gun; YAG screens; beam diagnostics; beam profile; beamline; bunch charge; bunch length measurements; cathode surface; electric field; electron bunches; energy spectrometer; high intensity electron beam; integrating charge transformers; pepper-pot plate; rms bunch lengths; streak-camera; transverse emittance; wakefield acceleration; Acceleration; Cathodes; Charge measurement; Current measurement; Electron beams; L-band; Length measurement; Radio frequency; Spectroscopy; Transformers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288767

Filename

1288767