MEASUREMENTS ON SLAC LINAC RF SYSTEM FOR LCLS OPERATION

Technical Report · Tue Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/800039· OSTI ID:800039

Akre, Ronald A ^[1]

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1. SLAC

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project [1] 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 RF stability required by the bunch compressors is tighter than what is currently required to run experiments. Measurements to determine how well the existing linac will meet the new requirements are ongoing. Presented is an update on the measurements and how they pertain to LCLS.

• 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: 800039
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-9421
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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