Status of the UCLA PEGASUS laboratory

Author

Andonian, G. ; Frigola, P. ; Reiche, S. ; Rosenzweig, J.B. ; Telfer, S. ; Travish, G.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

2110

Abstract

The PEGASUS laboratory is a versatile radiation facility dedicated to the advancement of novel concepts in beam physics. The installation of a new LaB₆ cathode will allow for both thermionic emission and photoinjection operation. The PEGASUS plane wave transformer injector has been conditioned to 20 MW of RF power. Recent operations show a 15 MeV dark current beam that will be used for beam radiation studies. An upgrade to the drive laser system has been explored and will be realized shortly. This paper will describe and report the status of the various sub-systems of the PEGASUS laboratory and outline the experiments underway, such as innovative beam instrumentation, surface effects in optical transition radiation, Thomson scattering, and waveguide SASE FEL.

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; electron accelerators; electron beams; linear accelerators; particle beam dynamics; particle beam injection; thermionic electron emission; 15 MeV; 20 MW; LaB₆cathode; PEGASUS plane wave transformer injector; RF power; Thomson scattering; UCLA PEGASUS laboratory; beam physics; beam radiation; dark current beam; drive laser system; optical transition radiation; photoinjection operation; thermionic emission; versatile radiation facility; waveguide SASE FEL; Cathodes; Dark current; Laboratories; Laser beams; Laser transitions; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Physics; Radio frequency; Thermionic emission;

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.2003.1288797

Filename

1288797