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Considerations on Beam Quality Control in MIT X-Ray FEL
The x-ray FEL at MIT[1] is one example of a design for a new generation linac-based light source. Such a new machine requires very high quality electron beams. Besides the usual requirements on beam parameters such as emittance, energy spread, peak current, there are new challenges emerging in the design studies, e.g., the arrival timing of electron beam must reach precision below tens of femtoseconds level to ensure the laser seed overlaps the desired sections of electron bunch in the multiple-stage HGHG process. In this paper we report the progress on design optimization towards high quality and low sensitivity beams.
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Polarization control proposal for Shanghai deep ultraviolet free electron laser
In this paper, a fully coherent radiation option with controllable polarization is proposed for the Shanghai deep ultraviolet free electron laser (FEL) test facility. Intensive start-to-end simulation suggests that the two crossed planar undulators which generate the horizontal and vertical linear polarized FEL, should be placed as close as possible for avoiding the polarization performance degradation of the final combined FEL radiation. With the existence of the phase-shifter between the two crossed radiators. Fourier-Transform-Limited output radiation with 100 nJ order pulse energy, 5 Ps full pulse length and circular polarization degree above 90% could be achieved. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Nonintersecting Brownian motions on the unit circle. Part I: noncritical cases
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Compensating the electron beam energy spread by the natural transverse gradient of laser undulator in all-optical x-ray light sources.
All-optical ideas provide a potential to dramatically cut off the size and cost of x-ray light sources to the university-laboratory scale, with the combination of the laser-plasma accelerator and the laser undulator. However, the large longitudinal energy spread of the electron beam from laser-plasma accelerator may hinder the way to high brightness of these all-optical light sources. In this paper, the beam energy spread effect is proposed to be significantly compensated by the natural transverse gradient of a laser undulator when properly transverse-dispersing the electron beam. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations on conventional laser-Compton scattering sources and high-gain all-optical x-ray free-electron lasers with the electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators are presented.
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FEL Polarization Control Studies on Dalian Coherent Light Source
The polarization switch of a free-electron laser (FEL) is of great importance to the user scientific community. In this paper, we investigate the generation of controllable polarization FEL from two well-known approaches for Dalian coherent light source, i.e., crossed planar undulator and elliptical permanent undulator. In order to perform a fair comparative study, a one-dimensional time-dependent FEL code has been developed, in which the imperfection effects of an elliptical permanent undulator are taken into account. Comprehensive simulation results indicate that the residual beam energy chirp and the intrinsic FEL gain may contribute to the degradation of the polarization performance for the crossed planar undulator. And the elliptical permanent undulator is not very sensitive to the undulator errors and beam imperfections. Meanwhile, with proper configurations of the main planar undulators and additional elliptical permanent undulator section, circular polarized FEL with pulse energy exceeds 100 μJ could be achieved at Dalian coherent light source.
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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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Beam-Beam Effects in the Ring-Ring Version of eRHIC
Beam-beam effects in the ring-ring version of eRHIC was studied with a self-consistent beam-beam simulation by using the particle-in-cell method. Beam-beam limits of the two beams were examined as the thresholds of the onset of the coherent beam-beam instability. For the proposed luminosity, the bunch intensities optimized in consideration of the beam-beam effect were discussed. As the beam-beam interaction in the eRHIC is traditionally considered as a strong-weak case, this represents an example of the coherent beam-beam effect in the strong-weak case of beam-beam interactions.
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Design of a superconducting linac cavity for high-current energy recovery linac operation
The RHIC electron cooler as well as other applications (such as a linac-ring version of eRHIC) requires a very high average current CW electron linac in an energy recovery mode. In this paper we present the design of a 5-cell superconducting linac cavity for velocity of light particles. This cavity will operate at 703.75 MHz with a large beam pipe aperture of 19 cm diameter and ferrite HOM absorbers in the beam pipe, in addition to the conventional HOM couplers for low frequency HOMs. We will report the design of the cavity geometry using the BuildCavity and Superfish codes, loss factor simulations with ABCI, detailed HOM simulations with MAFIA (with and without the ferrite absorbers) and beam breakup simulations using the code TDBBU.
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Simulation of magnetized beams
The angular momentums of particles in a bunch of beam are of importance in many applications. Usually the angular momentums are related to the end field of solenoids. In electron cooling facilities the solenoid fields are widely used as they are found very helpful not only in focusing and guiding the charge particle beams but also in enhancing the cooling rates. The RHIC electron cooler is a challenging project because it requires a high performance facility including a solenoid with high quality strong field (1 tesla). Issues caused by the end fields of the solenoid have been studied to minimize the extra temperature and coherent motions. In this paper we report recent results in simulating the angular momentums of the electron beam and its application on the RHIC electron cooler
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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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STATUS AND UPGRADE PROGRAM OF THE FERMI @ ELETTRA LINAC *
FERMI@ELETTRA is a seeded FEL user facility under construction at Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. It will use the existing normal conducting S-band linac and, with the installation of seven accelerating sections received from CERN after the LIL decommissioning, will be operated at 1.2 GeV. After the successful commissioning of the new 2.5 GeV Booster injector system of ELETTRA, the linac has been disconnected from the storage ring and is now being revised and upgraded with the installation of major new subsystems, i.e. a new photoinjector, bunch compressors, laser heater, additional accelerating structures, etc. Here we describe the upgrade program as well as the ongoing activities of the main sub-assemblies of the machine and their status.