Design and Start-to-End Simulation of an X-Band RF Driven Hard X-Ray FEL with LCLS Injector

Technical Report · Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1049749· OSTI ID:1049749

Sun, Yipeng

In this note, it is briefly discussed the accelerator design and start-to-end 3D macro particles simulation (using ELEGANT and GENESIS) of an X-band RF driven hard X-ray FEL with LCLS injector. A preliminary design and LiTrack 1D simulation studies were presented before in an older publication [1]. In numerical simulations this X-band RF driven hard X-ray FEL achieves/exceeds LCLS-like performance in a much shorter overall length of 350 m, compared with 1200 m in the LCLS case. One key feature of this design is that it may achieve a higher final beam current of 5 kA plus a uniform energy profile, mainly due to the employment of stronger longitudinal wake fields in the last X-band RF linac [2].

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1049749
• Report Number(s): SLAC-TN-12-007; TRN: US1204579
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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