Author: Teichert, J.
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MOPMB067 Design of a Cathode Insertion and Transfer System for LCLS-II-HE SRF Gun 267
 
  • R. Xiang, A. Arnold, S. Gatzmaga, A. Hoffmann, P. Murcek, R. Steinbrück, J. Teichert
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • C. Adolphsen, J. Smedley
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • W. Hartung, S.H. Kim, T.K. Konomi, S.J. Miller, L. Popielarski, K. Saito, T. Xu
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • M.P. Kelly, T.B. Petersen
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
  • J.W. Lewellen
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  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.
 
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  
 
  • A. Arnold, M. Freitag, M. Justus, U. Lehnert, P.N. Lu, S. Ma, P. Michel, P. Murcek, A.A. Ryzhov, J. Schaber, Ch. Schneider, R. Steinbrück, J. Teichert, R. Xiang
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • G. Ciovati, P. Kneisel, H. Vennekate
    JLab, Newport News, VA, USA
 
  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
 
  • S.J. Miller, Y. Al-Mahmoud, W. Chang, Y. Choi, C. Compton, X.J. Du, K. Elliott, W. Hartung, J.D. Hulbert, S.H. Kim, T. Konomi, D.G. Morris, M.S. Patil, L. Popielarski, K. Saito, A. Taylor, B.P. Tousignant, J. Wei, J.D. Wenstrom, K. Witgen, T. Xu
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • C. Adolphsen, R. Coy, F. Ji, M.J. Murphy, J. Smedley, L. Xiao
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • A. Arnold, S. Gatzmaga, P. Murcek, J. Teichert, R. Xiang
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • M.P. Kelly, T.B. Petersen, P. Piot
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
  • J.W. Lewellen
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  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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