Commissioning of the SPPS linac bunch compressor

Author

Krejcik, P. ; Decker, E.J. ; Emma, P. ; Hacker, K. ; Hendrickson, L. ; Connell, C. L O ; Schlarb, H. ; Smith, H. ; Stanek, M.

Author_Institution

Linear Accel. Center, Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

423

Abstract

First results and beam measurements are presented for the recently installed linac bunch compressor chicane. The new bunch compressor produces ultra-short electron bunches for the Sub-Picosecond Photon Source (SPPS) and for test beams such as the E164 Plasma Wakefield experiment. This paper will give an overview of the first experiences with tuning and optimizing the compressor together with a description of the beam diagnostics and beam measurements. These measurements form the basis for further detailed study of emittance growth effects such as CSR and wakefields in a previously unmeasured regime of ultra-short bunch lengths.

Keywords

electron accelerators; light sources; linear accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam diagnostics; wakefield accelerators; E164 Plasma Wakefield experiment; SPPS linac bunch compressor; Sub-Picosecond Photon Source; compressor optimisation; tuning; ultra-short electron bunches; Acceleration; Damping; Electron beams; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams; Plasma accelerators; Plasma measurements; Positrons; Testing;

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.2003.1288941

Filename

1288941