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Beam Physics Highlights of the FERMI@ELETTRA Project
The electron beam dynamics in the Fermi Linac has been studied in the framework of the design of a singlepass free electron laser (FEL) based on a seeded harmonic cascade. The wakefields of some accelerating sections represent a challenge for the preservation of a small beam emittance and for achieving a small final energy spread. Various analytical techniques and tracking codes have been employed in order to minimize the quadratic and the cubic energy chirps in the longitudinal phase space, since they may cause a degradation of the fel bandwidth. As for the transverse motion, the beam breakup (BBU) instability has been recognized as the main source of emittance dilution; the simulations show the validity of local and non-local correction methods in order to counteract the typical “banana” shape distortion of the beam caused by the instability.
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PROGRESS OF THE eRHIC ELECTRON RING DESIGN
Over the past year, a baseline design of the electron ring for the eRHIC hadron-lepton collider has been developed. This site-specific design is based on the understanding of the existing RHIC machine performance and its possible upgrades. The design includes a full energy polarized electron beam injector to ensure operational reliability and to provide high integrated luminosity. The electron ring energy range is 5 to 10 GeV. The electron beam emittance, the electron beam path length, and the interaction region optics have to be adjustable over wide ranges depending on the ion species and energy for collisions. We describe the design features and expected machine performance. The results of recent beam polarization and beam-beam studies are also discussed.
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STATUS OF THE FERMI @ ELETTRA PHOTOINJECTOR
The new FERMI@Elettra photoinjector is presently undergoing high-power testing and characterization at MAXlab in Lund, Sweden. This effort is a collaboration between Sincrotrone Trieste, MAX-lab and UCLA. The 1.6-cell RF gun cavity and the focusing solenoid were successfully designed and built by the Particle Beam Physics Laboratory at UCLA, delivered to Sincrotrone Trieste at the beginning of 2008, and installed in the linac tunnel at MAX-lab. Use of the MAX-lab facility will allow the FERMI project to progress significantly with the photoinjector while waiting for the completion of the new linac building extension at Sincrotrone Trieste. We report here on the high-power conditioning of the RF cavity and the first beam tests. STATUS OF THE FERMI@ELETTRA PHOTOINJECTOR∗ M. Trovò† , L. Badano, S. Biedron, D. Castronovo, F. Cianciosi, P. Craievich, M.D. Danailov, G. D’Auria, M. Ferianis, S.V. Milton, G. Penco, L. Pivetta, L. Rumiz, D. Wang, Sincrotrone Trieste, Trieste, Italy M. Eriksson, D.Kumbaro, F. Lindau, MAX-lab, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden H. Badakov, A. Fukasawa, B. O’Shea, J. Rosenzweig, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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The eRHIC Ring-Ring Collider Design
The eRHIC ring-ring collider is the main design option for the future lepton-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The baseline design is presented in the eRHIC Zeroth-Order Design Report (ZDR) [1]. We report on progress made during the past year including possible interaction region design changes, upgrade efforts on RHIC (the ion ring), and results of a new design study on the e-ring. The interaction region revision is based on a new scheme for the main detector design. RHIC upgrades are being pursued to ensure luminosity and ion polarization goals of the ring-ring option in the baseline design will be met. Higher current operation of the lepton storage ring is under serious consideration as a result of better understanding of beam-beam interaction effects.
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Stripline beam position monitor for the MIT-Bates South Hall Ring
The MIT-Bates South Hall Ring (SHR) is an electron storage ring currently being commissioned. It is designed to operate at an RF frequency of 2856 MHz with all of the 1812 buckets filled and a circulating current of 80 mA or greater. This leads to a small charge per bunch and the requirement for beam position monitors. Since there will be 31 such monitors in the vacuum system, it is important to suppress trapped modes which may excite coupled bunch instabilities. The stripline monitor built for the SHR is a stainless steel structure, designed to be manufactured using standard machining techniques and commercial feedthroughs. With proper 50 Ohm matching and a geometry derived from insight from MAFIA calculations, the monitor was constructed having a nearly flat RF response up through 10 GHz over the range of measurement. The stripline electronics allows the measurements with 0.1 mm resolution, maintains orbital harmonics information past the 10th harmonic, and operates over a dynamic range of 1 mA to greater than 80 mA of beam current.<<ETX>>
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STUDY OF THE ENERGY CHIRP EFFECTS ON SEEDED FEL SCHEMES AT SDUV-FEL
In this paper, theoretical and simulation study of the energy chirp effects on the HGHG and EEHG schemes are present. It is found that the central wavelength and output bandwidth of EEHG can be nearly immune to the beam energy chirp by properly setting the strengths of the chicanes. Experimental studies for both these two schemes have been carried out at the SDUV-FEL to demonstrate the theoretical predictions.
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Phase-merging enhanced harmonic generation free-electron laser
Together with one of its variants, the recently proposed phase-merging enhanced harmonic generation (PEHG) free-electron laser (FEL) is systematically studied in this paper. Different from a standard high-gain harmonic generation scheme, a transverse gradient undulator is employed to introduce a phase-merging effect into the transversely dispersed electron beam in PEHG. The analytical theory of the phase-merging effect and the physical mechanism behind the phenomenon are presented. Using a representative set of beam parameters, intensive start-to-end simulations for soft x-ray FEL generation are given to illustrate the performance of PEHG. Moreover, some practical issues that may affect the performance of PEHG are also discussed.
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Improved analysis for the baryon masses to order Lambda(QCD) / m(Q) from QCD sum rules
We use the QCD sum rule approach to calculate the masses of the Lambda_Q and Sigma_Q baryons to the Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q order within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. We compare the direct approach and the covariant approach to this problem. Two forms of currents have been adopted in our calculation and their effects on the results are discussed. Numerical results obtained in both direct and covariant approaches are presented. The splitting between spin 1/2 and 3/2 doublets derived from our calculation is {\Sigma_Q^*}^2-\Sigma_Q^2\simeq 0.35\pm 0.03 GeV^2 which is in good agreement with the experiment.
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Single-shot measurement of free-electron laser polarization at SDUV-FEL
In this paper, a division-of-amplitude photopolarimeter (DOAP) for measuring the polarization state of a free-electron laser (FEL) pulse is described. The incident FEL beam is divided into four separate beams, and four Stokes parameters can be measured in a single-shot. In the crossed-planar undulators experiment at the Shanghai deep ultraviolet FEL test facility, this DOAP instrument constructed in house responsed accurately and timely while the polarization-state of fully coherent FEL pulses were switched, which is helpful for confirming the crossed-planar undulators technique for short-wavelength FELs.
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Experimental studies of longitudinal dynamics of space-charge dominated electron beams
A comprehensive experimental program was carried out at the University of Maryland Beam Transport facility to study the longitudinal beam physics of space-charge dominated bunches. This investigation included the behavior of (a) bunches with parabolic line charge profile, (b) bunches with rectangular line charge profile, and (c) local perturbations (slow and fast waves) in rectangular bunches. The major experimental results are presented in this paper.
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Simulation studies on laser pulse stability for Dalian coherent light source
Dalian Coherent Light Source will use a 300 MeV LINAC to produce fully coherent photon pulses in the wavelength range between 150-50 nm by high gain harmonic generation free electron laser (FEL) scheme. To generate stable FEL pulses, a stringent tolerance budget is required for the LINAC output parameters, such as the mean beam energy stability, electron bunch arrival time jitter, peak current variation and the transverse beam position offset. In order to provide guidance for the design of the Dalian Coherent Light Source, in this paper, the sensitivity of FEL pulse energy fluctuation to various error sources of the electron bunch was performed using intensive start-to-end FEL simulations.