SLAC Linac RF Performance for LCLS

Technical Report · Thu Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/763854· OSTI ID:763854

Akre, Ronald A ^[1]

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1. SLAC

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at SLAC uses a dense 15 GeV electron beam passing through a long undulator to generate extremely bright x-rays at 1.5 angstroms. The project requires electron bunches with a nominal peak current of 3.5kA and bunch lengths of 0.020mm (70fs). The bunch compression techniques used to achieve the high brightness impose challenging tolerances on the accelerator RF phase and amplitude. The results of measurements on the existing SLAC linac RF phase and amplitude stability are summarized and improvements needed to meet the LCLS tolerances are discussed.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 763854
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-8574
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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