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Beyond the RF photogun. Jom Luiten Seth Brussaard Fred Kiewiet - RF photogun Benjamin Canuel Dimitri Vyuga - DC photogun Marieke de Loos - GPT Bas van der Geer - GPT Jan Botman Marnix van der Wiel. Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands. Pancake bunches & Extreme fields.
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Beyond the RF photogun Jom Luiten Seth Brussaard Fred Kiewiet - RF photogun Benjamin Canuel Dimitri Vyuga - DC photogun Marieke de Loos - GPT Bas van der Geer - GPT Jan Botman Marnix van der Wiel Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
Pancake bunches & Extreme fields 1 mm 30 m high pressure SF6 Energy: 10 MeV Peak Current: 1 kA X-ray SASE FEL Emittance: 1 mm mrad Length: 100 fs injector for LWFA Charge: 100 pC Target bunch: Laser-triggered spark gap: 1 GV/m during 1 ns (BNL) 50 fs UV laser pulse Keep bunches short during acceleration - no magnetic compression!
Outline • Pancake bunches accelerated in uniform fields • Space charge fields in pancake bunches • Longitudinal phase space • Transverse phase space • GPT simulations • 2 MeV DC gun • DC + RF gun (2+8 MeV) • 10 MeV 1 GV/m DC gun? • Experimental progress • 2 MeV DC gun • 8 MeV, 2½ cell RF photogun
L/R=0 0 MeV 2 MeV L/R=0.3 R ½ L/R=1.2 10 MeV 0 -L/2 L/2 L Z 0 -½ Space charge fields in pancake bunches bunch=100 fs, R=0.5 mm, Q=100 pC Long. field Radial field Lab frame Rest frame ½ Ez/Es 1 Er/Es 0 -L/2 L/2 -½ 0 ½ R 1 L/2 0 -L/2 0 -½ R 1 R r
- - - E0 Ez Ez E0 E0 E0-Es E0-Es 0 z 0 0 z z (cf. Serafini et al., NIMA 387, 305 (1997)) Longitudinal phase space + + + Ez Peak current in surface charge regime: E0=1 GV/m, R=0.5 mm I0=4 kA
E0=1 GV/m R=0.5 mm Q=100 pC Transverse phase space • Worst case: L/R=0 geometry • Negligible radial motion px RMS normalized emittance: x Incl. thermal emittance 0.6 n,x 0.5 ( mm mrad) 0.4 Excl. thermal emittance 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.5 1 1.5 2 Z (mm)
GPT simulations: 2 MeV DC gun (1) (Van der Geer et al., PRE 65, 046501 (2002)) Evaluate bunch at z=4.5 mm Q=100 pC, R=0.5 mm, E0=1 GV/m Highly nonlinear radial fields at iris!
GPT simulations: 2 MeV DC gun (2) 100 fs • Longitudinal phase space at z=4.5 mm: • FWHM bunch length 73 fs • Energy spread ~ 2% • Peak current 1.2 kA 2% 1.2 kA In agreement with simple model!
GPT simulations: 2 MeV DC gun (3) • RMS normalized transverse emittance at z=4.5 mm: • n=0.4 mm mrad • nonlinear electrostatic emittance compensation! (spherical aberration cancels nonlinear space charge fields) • uniform field results in agreement with simple model.
GPT simulations: DC + RF gun (1) 2 MV across 2 mm Cylindrically symmetric 2½ cell 8 MeV S-band RF booster RF Solenoid field strength 0.42-0.52 T
GPT simulations: DC + RF gun (2) Hollow cathode surface (radius of curvature 3 mm) to minimize beam divergence.
GPT simulations: DC + RF gun (3) • At z = 0.2 m: • n = 1.0 mm mrad • zFWHM/c = 250 fs • I = 400 A Particle trajectories for B=0.46 T
9.6 9.4 400 200 0 -200 0 200 GPT simulations : DC + RF gun (5) Energy [MeV] Longitudinal phasespace At z=200 mm. Current [A] Position [fs]
electrons trigger laser t0 t1 t2 t3 10 MeV 1GV/m DC gun? Electrons accelerated by transverse E-fields in coaxial lines Requirement: pulses with picosecond rise time!
4 mm 2 MV 1 ns 3 mm Near threshold / Tunneling ionization: Laser intensity > 1018 W/m2 High power Ti:Sapphire laser: 50 mJ / 50 fs = 1 TW plasma diameter = 0.3 mm Spark-gap plasma column E < 1GV/m 1.5 MV in less than 1 picosecond
25 mm 2 MV, 1 ns pulse Laser trigger Accelerator structure Electron bunch Spark-gaps GPT simulations: 12 MeV pulsed DC gun (1) EM field calculations: CST Microwave Studio
Emittance [pi mm mrad] z [mm] Current [A] z [mm] GPT simulations: 12 MeV pulsed DC gun (2) I = 0.7 kA; n=0.6 mm mrad @ 12 MeV
Experimental status: Pulsed DC acceleration Brookhaven National lab: 1 MV (5 MV?) pulses 1 GV/m @ 1 ns Under construction @ TU/e: 2.5 MV pulses 1 ns
10 MW 2.998 GHz 2½ cell 8 MeV Experimental status: RF Photogun TE10 mode TEM mode Doorknob (DESY) Movable short
Superfish: f0=2998.0 MHz Q=6500 Reflection < 1% 0-mode: Intermediate mode: -mode: Measurement: Superfish 0 Measurement 1.0 0.8 -10 Reflection [dB] 0.6 |E/Emax| -20 0.4 -30 0.2 -40 0.0 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 2.992 2.994 2.996 2.998 3.000 Position [mm] Frequency [GHz]
First results RF photogun: Beam on phosphorescent screen: Energy : 5..6 MeV Charge : 100 .. 500 pC UV laser power : 50 J 1 mm
Summary DC/RF hybrid RF photogun Operational multi stage DC?