Measurement of self-shaped ellipsoidal bunches from a photoinjector with postacceleration

作者：O'Shea Brendan^*; Rosenzweig James B; Asova Galina; Baehr Juergen; Haenel Marc; Ivanisenko Yevgeniy; Khojoyan Martin; Krasilnikov Mikhail; Staykov Lazar; Stephan Frank; Roensch Schulenburg Juliane

来源：Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, 2011, 14(1): 012801.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.14.012801

Recent work has shown the possibility of generating self-shaped ellipsoidal beams with properties commensurate with the requirements of future light sources such as free-electron lasers and inverse Compton sources. In this so-termed "blowout" regime, short laser bunches are transformed via photoemission into short electron bunches which then self-consistently evolve into nearly uniform-density ellipsoids under space-charge forces. We report here on the first blowout studies conducted in collaboration between the UCLA Particle Beam Physics Lab and the Photo Injector Test Facility, Zeuthen (PITZ). The measurements conducted at the PITZ photoinjector facility examine the evolution of 750 pC, 2.7 ps FWHM electron bunches born in an L-band photoinjector and subsequently accelerated through a nine-cell L-band booster for a resulting energy of 12 MeV. These measurements represent the first observations of self-shaped ellipsoid evolution under postinjector acceleration, a key step in demonstrating the utility of such self-shaped beams at higher energy, where the advantages in both transverse and longitudinal and transverse phase space may be exploited in creating very high brightness beams.

• 出版日期2011-1-10