Sensitivity and alternative operating point studies on a high charge CW FEL injector test stand at CEBAF
- Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
A high charge CW FEL injector test stand is being built at CEBAF based on a 500 kV DC laser gun, a 1500 MHz room-temperature buncher, and a high-gradient ({approx}10 MV/m) CEBAF cryounit containing two 1500 MHz CEBAF SRF cavities. Space-charge-dominated beam dynamics simulations show that this injector should be an excellent high-brightness electron beam source for CW UV FELs if the nominal parameters assigned to each component of the system are experimentally achieved. Extensive sensitivity and alternative operating point studies have been conducted numerically to establish tolerances on the parameters of various injector system components. The consequences of degraded injector performance, due to failure to establish and/or maintain the nominal system design parameters, on the performance of the main accelerator and the FEL itself are discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- OSTI ID:
- 238741
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--61982-Absts.; CONF-9508156--Absts.; ON: DE96002729
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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