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Generating polarization controllable FELs at Dalian coherent light source
The property of the FEL polarization is of great importance to the user community. FEL pulses with ultra-high intensity and flexible polarization control ability will absolutely open up new scientific realms. In this paper, several polarizationcontrolapproachesare presentedto investigate the great potential on Dalian coherent light source, which is a government-approvednovel FEL user facility with the capability of wavelength continuously tunable in the EUV regime of 50 − 150 nm. The numerical simulations show that both circularly polarized FELs with highly modulating frequencyand 100 μJ levelpulse energycouldbe generated at Dalian coherent light source.
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HESYRL 200 MeV linac single bunch energy spectrum measurement
The HESYRL 200-MeV electron linac was completed in December 1987, and has been running well. A careful study of the single-bunch energy spectrum for the linac was done. The measurement shows that the energy spread of the linac is +or-0.4%. The energy spectrum is quite stable and repeatable, and the resolution and accuracy are found to be satisfactory.<<ETX>>
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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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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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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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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.
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Experimental study of longitudinal dynamics of space-charge dominated parabolic bunches
Longitudinal dynamics of space-charge dominated parabolic beams has been studied at the University of Maryland Electron Beam Transport Facility. In this paper we report results which emphasis experiment, while numerical simulation studies are presented in another paper in this proceedings. Excellent agreement is found between experiment, simulation and theoretical prediction.<<ETX>>
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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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A model of the light curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Aims. An extreme Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a precessing disk is invoked to explain the light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and the magnetic coupling (MC) processes. Methods. The overall shape of the light curves and the duration of GRBs are interpreted by the evolution of the halfopening angle of the magnetic flux on the BH horizon, and the complex temporal structures are modulated by the precession and nutation of the jet powered by the BZ process. Results. The time profile of the emission exhibits a fast rise and a slow decay due to the effect of the evolution of the half-opening angle. The light curves of several GRBs are well fitted by this model with only six free parameters.
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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.