The BNL Accelerator Test Facility and experimental program

Conference · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:10172087

Ben-Zvi, I ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at BNL is a users` facility for experiments in Accelerator and Beam Physics. The ATF provides high brightness electron beams and high-power laser pulses synchronized to the electron beam, suitable for studies of new methods of high-gradient acceleration and state-of-the-art Free-Electron Lasers. The electrons are produced by a laser photocathode rf gun and accelerated to 50 MeV by two traveling wave accelerator sections. The lasers include a 10 mJ, 10 ps ND:YAG laser and a 500 mJ, 10 to 100 ps C0{sub 2} laser. A number of users from National Laboratories, universities and industry take part in experiments at the ATF. The experimental program includes various laser acceleration schemes, Free-Electron Laser experiments and a program on the development of high-brightness electron beams. The ATF`s experimental program commenced in early 1991 at an energy of about 4 MeV. The full program, with 50 MeV and the high-power laser will begin operation this year.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 10172087
• Report Number(s): BNL-47785; CONF-9206193-5; ON: DE92019259
• Resource Relation: Conference: Advanced accelerator concepts workshop,Port Jefferson, NY (United States),14-20 Jun 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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