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DOE OSTI2022

Generation of ultrahigh-brightness pre-bunched beams from a plasma cathode for X-ray free-electron lasers

The longitudinal coherence of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) in the self-amplified spontaneous emission regime could be substantially improved if the high brightness electron beam could be pre-bunched on the radiated wavelength-scale. Here, we show that it is indeed possible to realize such current modulated electron beam at angstrom scale by exciting a nonlinear wake across a periodically modulated plasma-density downramp/plasma cathode. The density modulation turns on and off the injection of electrons in the wake while downramp provides a unique longitudinal mapping between the electrons’ initial injection positions and their final trapped positions inside the wake. The combined use of a downramp and periodic modulation of micrometers is shown to be able to produces a train of high peak current (17 kA) electron bunches with a modulation wavelength of 10’s of angstroms - orders of magnitude shorter than the plasma density modulation. The peak brightness of the nano-bunched beam can be $\textit{O}$(10 21 A/m 2 /rad 2 ) orders of magnitude higher than current XFEL beams. Such prebunched, high brightness electron beams hold the promise for compact and lower cost XEFLs that can produce nanometer radiation with hundreds of GW power in a 10s of centimeter long undulator.

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION↗
DOE OSTI2012

Terahertz radiation source based on self-wake beam bunching

A table top device for producing high power T-ray beams is described. A rectangular electron beam that can be produced out of a photoinjector via stacking of the laser pulse, and running off-crest of the photoinjector rf is sent through a dielectric loaded waveguide. Due to the beam's self-wake its energy becomes modulated. In the chicane beamline following the dielectric energy-bunching section this energy modulation is converted to a density modulation-a bunch train. The density modulated beam can be sent through a power extraction section, like a dielectric loaded accelerating structure, or simply can intercept a foil target, producing THz radiation of various bandwidths and power levels.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2018

Development of a Bunched Beam Electron Cooler based on ERL and Circulator Ring Technology for the Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider

Jefferson Lab is in the process of designing an electron ion collider with unprecedented luminosity at a 45 GeV center-of-mass energy. This luminosity relies on ion cooling in both the booster and the storage ring of the accelerator complex. The cooling in the booster will use a conventional DC cooler similar to the one at COSY. The high-energy storage ring, operating at a momentum of up to 100 GeV/nucleon, requires novel use of bunched-beam cooling. There are two designs for such a cooler. The first uses a conventional Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) with a magnetized beam while the second uses a circulating ring to enhance both peak and average currents experienced by the ion beam. This presentation will describe the design of both the Circulator Cooling Ring (CCR) design and that of the backup option using the stand-alone ERL operated at lower charge but higher repetition rate than the ERL injector required by the CCR-based design.

Benson, Stephen V.↗
DOE OSTI2016

Harmonic stripline kicker for MEIC bunched beam cooler

In the current MEIC design, the ion collider ring needs to be cooled by a bunched electron beam of up to 200 mA 55 MeV, with the possibility to upgrade to 1.5 A. Although it?s not impossible to design and build an ERL to provide such a beam, the technical risk and cost associated with such an ERL will be very high. An alternative is to recirculate the electron bunches in a ring for several turns until the bunch?s quality is degraded, reducing the beam current in the ERL by a factor of up to 25. This scheme requires a pair of fast kickers that kick one in every 10 or 25 bunches. In this paper, we will analyze the dynamics of a harmonic stripline kicker for this application, and compare to the harmonic resonator kicker.

Guo, J.↗
DOE OSTI2015

Compensating tune spread induced by space charge in bunched beams

The effects of space charge play a significant role in modern-day accelerators, frequently constraining the beam parameters attainable in an accelerator or in an accelerator chain. They also can limit the luminosity of hadron colliders operating either at low energies or with sub-TeV high-brightness hadron beams. The latter is applied for strongly cooled proton and ion beams in eRHIC – the proposed future electron-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Using an appropriate electron beam would compensate both the tune shift and the tune spread in the hadron beam in a coasting beam. But these methods cannot compensate space charge tune spread in a bunched hadron beam. In this paper we propose and evaluate a novel idea of using a co-propagating electron bunch with mismatched longitudinal velocity to compensate the space charge induced tune-shift and tune spread.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2014

On compensating tune spread induced by space charge in bunched beams

Space charge effects play significant role in modern-day accelerators. These effects frequently constrain attainable beam parameters in an accelerator, or, in an accelerator chain. They also could limit the luminosity of hadron colliders operating either at low energies or with a sub-TeV high brightness hadron beams. The latter is applied for strongly cooled proton and ion beams in eRHIC – the proposed future electron-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A number of schemes for compensating space charge effects in a coasting (e.g. continuous) hadron beam were proposed and some of them had been tested. Using a proper transverse profile of the electron beam (or plasma column) for a coasting beam would compensate both the tune shift and the tune spread in the hadron beam. But all of these methods do not address the issue of tune spread compensation of a bunched hadron beam, e.g. the tune shift dependence on the longitudinal position inside the bunch. In this paper we propose and evaluate a novel idea of using a co-propagating electron bunch with miss-matched longitudinal velocity to compensate the space charge induced tune-shift and tune spread. We present a number of practical examples of such system.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2020

Coherent transverse instability of bunched beams in circular accelerators

Coherent transverse oscillations of a bunch in a ring accelerator are considered. Three different models of the bunch are used: a hollow bunch in a square potential well, a square bunch in a parabolic potential well, and a parabolic bunch in a parabolic well. The bunch space-charge field, wakefield, and chromaticity are taken into account in all the cases. The bunch eigenmodes and various instabilities are studied. The results are compared and analyzed to establish the range of applicability of the models. Role of the Landau damping due to dependence of the SC field on the longitudinal coordinate is discussed.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2012

A QUEST FOR SYSTEM FRIENDLINESS WITH THE SNS ION BEAM BUNCH SHAPE MONITOR

A new system for measuring the SNS ion beam longitudinal profile was recently upgraded to operational status. The hardware for this device was developed and delivered by Institute of Nuclear Research to the SNS as a part of its initial construction. The supplied LabVIEW user interface software was intended for proof-of-operation and initial setup of the instrument. While satisfactory for this, it was tedious to use in a practical context and lacked any form of interface to the SNS EPICS based control system. This paper will describe the software features added to make this instrument both easily tunable to the prevalent beam conditions by system engineers and easily usable by accelerator physicists only interested in its output data.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2019

Micro-aligned 1 Tesla Solenoid for High-energy Bunched-beam Electron Cooling

Electron cooling of ion beams requires precise alignment of the electron beam with the equilibrium trajectory of the ion bunch. In magnetized cooling the cooling rate is enhanced by transverse confinement of each electron on a magnetic line of force. The magnetic lines of force must therefore be aligned with the ion bunch trajectory everywhere along the extent of the solenoid. For the parameters required for JLEIC, a solenoid with bore field ~1 T, length ~30 m, and rms alignment of ~micro-radian is required. Such alignment has never been accomplished. The design of a micro-aligned solenoid is presented. A gap-separated stack of thin steel washers is located along the bore of the solenoid. The flux plate stack shields transverse magnetic fields from the interior, so that axial alignment is enhanced by a factor of ~10.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2011

A Two Bunch Beam Position Monitor

A new beam position monitor digitizer module has been designed, tested and tuned at SLAC. This module, the electron-positron beam position monitor (epBPM), measures position of single electron and positron bunches for the SLC, LINAC, PEPII injections lines and final focus. The epBPM has been designed to improve resolution of beam position measurements with respect to existing module and to speed feedback correction. The required dynamic range is from 5 x 10{sup 8} to 10{sup 11} particles per bunch (46dB). The epBPM input signal range is from {+-}2.5 mV to {+-}500 mV. The pulse-to-pulse resolution is less than 2 {mu}m for 5 x 10{sup 10} particles per bunch for the 12 cm long striplines, covering 30{sup o} at 9 mm radius. The epBPM module has been made in CAMAC standard, single width slot, with SLAC type timing connector. 45 modules have been fabricated. The epBPM module has four input channels X{sup +}, X{sup -}, Y{sup +}, Y{sup -} (Fig. 1), named to correspond with coordinates of four striplines - two in horizontal and two in vertical planes, processing signals to the epBPM inputs. The epBPM inputs are split for eight signal processing channels to catch two bunches, first - the positron, then the electron bunch in one cycle of measurements. The epBPM has internal and external trigger modes of operations. The internal mode has two options - with or without external timing, catching only first bunch in the untimed mode. The epBPM has an on board calibration circuit for measuring gain of the signal processing channels and for timing scan of programmable digital delays to synchronize the trigger and the epBPM input signal's peak. There is a mode for pedestal measurements. The epBPM has 3.6 {mu}s conversion time.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2012

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS (ICA) APPLIED TO LONG BUNCH BEAMS IN THE LOS ALAMOS PROTON STORAGE RING

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a powerful blind source separation (BSS) method. Compared to the typical BSS method, principal component analysis (PCA), which is the BSS foundation of the well known model independent analysis (MIA), ICA is more robust to noise, coupling, and nonlinearity. ICA of turn-by-turn beam position data has been used to measure the transverse betatron phase and amplitude functions, dispersion function, linear coupling, sextupole strength, and nonlinear beam dynamics. We apply ICA in a new way to slices along the bunch and discuss the source signals identified as betatron motion and longitudinal beam structure.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2019

Stopped, Bunched Beams for the TwinSol Facility

Tests of the unitarity of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Masakawa (CKM) matrix offer an important avenue for constraining the Standard Model of the electroweak interaction. Several methods are currently used to determine V-ud, the largest element in the top-row normalization test. One such method is through the study of superallowed T =1/2 mixed mirror transitions, which offers a complementary method to the current most-precise value that is determined from superallowed pure Fermi 0(+) 0(+) transitions. The precision currently achievable by this method is currently limited by the very low number of transitions for which the Fermi-to-Gamow-Teller mixing ratio has been measured. St. Benedict, the Superallowed Transition Beta-Neutrino Decay-Ion-Coincidence Trap, is currently under development at the University of Notre Dame's Nuclear Science Laboratory, and intends to determine for a range of new isotopes through measurements of the -neutrino asymmetry parameter a using a linear Paul trap. In order to trap these ions, the fast, continuous secondary beam separated by the TwinSol twin solenoid separator must be thermalized and bunched. The system through which this will be done will feature a large-volume gas cell in which the ions will be thermalized, a double-RF-funnel-based ion guide system for the extraction of the ions, and a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) to provide cooled ion bunches for capture in the Paul trap.

beam cooling↗
DOE OSTI2018

Vertical Coupled Bunched-Beam Breakup Due to Resistive-Wall Wake

We estimate in this note the magnitude of the vertical rigid coupled-bunch mode of Courant and Sessler at NSLS-II. If the proposed mini gap undulators (MGUs) are operated at the room temperature, the threshold current is calculated to be about 10 mA; this is to be compared to the designed beam current of 500 mA. If the MGUs are operated at 4.2° Kelvins, the threshold current is about 120 mA. In either case, a feedback damper is needed in order to operate NSLS-II at 500 mA.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2018

Vertical Coupled Bunched-Beam Breakup Due to Resistive-Wall Wake

We estimate in this note the magnitude of the vertical rigid coupled-bunch mode of Courant and Sessler [1] at NSLS-II. If the proposed mini gap undulators (MGUs) are operated at the room temperature, the threshold current is calculated to be about 10 mA; this is to be compared to the designed beam current of 500 mA. If the MGUs are operated at 4.2 Kelvins, the threshold current is about 120 mA. In either case, a feedback damper is needed in order to operate NSLS-II at 500 mA.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗