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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dependence of quantum correlations of twin beams on the pump finesse of an optical parametric oscillator
The dependence of quantum correlations of twin beams on the pump finesse of an optical parametric oscillator is studied via a semi-classical analysis. It is found that the phase-sum correlation of the output signal and idler beams from an optical parametric oscillator operating above threshold depends on the finesse of the pump field when the spurious pump phase noise generated inside the optical cavity and the excess noise of the input pump field are involved in the Langevin equations. The theoretical calculations can explain the previously experimental results quantitatively.
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The Start-to-End Simulation of Electron Beam in the RHIC E-cooling Facility (L-band option) with PARMELA
The electron cooling facility has been proposed as a way to reduced the ion beam emittance and energy spread for the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) to significantly enhance the luminosity. In a high energy electron cooling facilities like the one for RHIC, since the very higher beam quality is needed for the sufficient cooling rate, the traditional way to produce, accelerate and focus beam are hardly applicable. The new solutions include photo-injector for producing the high charge electron bunch with very low emittance, superconducting linac cavities for high current operations, strong cooler solenoid and beam transport to achieve specific beam parameters and make energyrecovery, etc. A start-to-end simulation has been performed with L-band (1.3GHz) gun and linac (TESLA cavity) to demonstrate the feasibility of such an unprecedented cooling facility from the beam production and transport point of view. The main results are, totally revised gun performance considering the crucial heating and RF power issues; workable scheme for merging high/low energy beam into linac with small bending angle dipole, septum magnet and rotation cavity; magnetized beam simulations, beam stretching and compressing, etc. It shows first time that such a design, with high charge beam, magnetized cathode, L-band super-conducting cavities and long transport lines, is feasible from the single bunch particle tracking point of view. The next step is to include real cooler solenoid sections (under design in the Magnet Division). The coherent synchrotron radiation effects is investigated in a separate study.
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On the soliton solutions of the two-dimensional Toda lattice
The two-dimensional Toda lattice (2DTL) is a well-known (2+1)-dimensional integrable system that admits a large class of line-soliton solutions. We classify these soliton solutions by exploiting the structure of the Casoratian expression for its tau function. In general, these solutions consist of unequal numbers of 'incoming' and 'outgoing' line solitons. We classify the incoming and outgoing line solitons based on asymptotic analysis of the tau function of the 2DTL as the discrete variable tends to infinity. We also identify various subclasses of solutions and characterize some of them in terms of the amplitudes and directions of the interacting solitons. As a special case, we obtain the reduction in the soliton solutions of the one-dimensional Toda lattice. Throughout, we point out the similarities with—and the differences from—the corresponding results for the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation.
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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.