Thermionic RF Gun and Linac Pre-Injector for SPEAR3

Technical Report · Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/815262· OSTI ID:815262

Park, S ^[1]

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1. SLAC

Preparations are underway to upgrade the Spear2 to the third generation light source. Installation of all the subsystems will start in April 2003. Although the Spear3 RF system is entirely different from the present form, the pre-injector gun/linac and booster synchrotron will remain the same even after the upgrade. The thermionic rf gun reliability and stability are to be improved to inject 500 mA of stored current in shortest possible time. When a top-up mode is enforced, where the stored beam decay is replenished to maintain the constant current and thus constant light intensity, the Spear3 will take injection every few minutes. In that case the gun, linac, and booster must stay on at all times. In this report we will describe some improvements made on the gun and linac in the recent past, as well as their present performance and future upgrade to be made.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 815262
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-10118
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
DECAY
LIGHT SOURCES
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STABILITY
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