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MOPMB067 | Design of a Cathode Insertion and Transfer System for LCLS-II-HE SRF Gun | 267 |
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Funding: Work supported by cooperation project between MSU and HZDR RC113062 from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-AC02-76SF00515. Superconducting radio frequency photo injectors (SRF gun) offer advantages for operating in continuous wave (CW) mode and generating high-brightness and high-current beams. A new SRF gun is designed as a low emittance photo injector for LCLS-II-HE and a prototype gun is currently being developed under collaboration between SLAC, FRIB, HZDR and ANL. The aim is to demonstrate stable CW operation at a cathode gradient of 30 MV/m. One of the crucial component for successful SRF gun operation is the photocathode system. The new SRF gun will adopt the HZDR-type cathode, which includes a cathode holder fixture (cathode stalk) developed by FRIB and a sophisticated cathode exchange system designed by HZDR. This innovative cathode insertion system ensures accurate, particle-free and warm cathode exchanges. A novel alignment process targets the cathode to the stalk axis without touching cathode plug itself. To commission the prototype gun, metallic cathodes will be used. A specifically designed vacuum system ensures vacuum pressure of 10-9 mbar for transport of a single cathode from the cleanroom to the gun. Thus maintaining cathode quality. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-MOPMB067 | |
About • | Received ※ 18 June 2023 — Revised ※ 23 June 2023 — Accepted ※ 26 June 2023 — Issue date ※ 18 July 2023 | |
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FRIBA06 |
Operational Experience From 8 Years of ELBE SRF-Gun II | |
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At the electron accelerator for beams with high brilliance and low emittance (ELBE), the second version of a superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) photoinjector was brought into operation in 2014. After a period of commissioning, a gradual transfer to routine operation took place in 2017, so that now more than 1800h of user beam are generated every year. Since the commission, a total of 24 cathodes (2 Cu, 12 Mg, 10 Cs₂Te) have been used, without observing serious cavity degradation. The contribution summarizes commissioning and operational experience of the last 8 years of gun operation, with special emphasis on SRF properties but also on specialties such as dark current and multipacting that are directly linked to the integration of a normal conducting cathode into the SRF cavity. | ||
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FRIBA07 | Status of the SLAC/MSU SRF Gun Development Project | 1003 |
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Funding: Work supported by the Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 The Linac Coherent Light Source II High Energy (LCLS-II-HE) Project at SLAC includes the construction of a low-emittance injector (LEI) and a superconducting quarter-wave resonator (QWR) at 185.7 MHz. Several alternatives to a superconducting radio frequency (SRF) QWR gun were considered for the LEI, including nor-mal-conducting RF guns evolved from the LCLS-II gun design. Compared to normal-conducting designs, the combination of an intrinsically outstanding vacuum environment (for cathode lifetime), and the potential for a larger ultimate performance envelope, led to the deci-sion to pursue development of the QWR-SRF gun. A prototype gun is currently being designed and fabricated at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michi-gan State University (MSU). This paper presents perfor-mance goals for the new gun design, an overview of the prototype development effort, status, and future plans including fabrication. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-FRIBA07 | |
About • | Received ※ 15 June 2023 — Revised ※ 25 June 2023 — Accepted ※ 26 June 2023 — Issue date ※ 11 July 2023 | |
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