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design parameters, most notably achieving over 2 kW of average IR power.<br />

As a result of the IR FEL Demo’s demonstrated success, the attractive features<br />

of an SRF linac with energy recovery became apparent. Applications of ERLs<br />

were extended to synchrotron radiation sources, electron cooling and electron-ion<br />

colliders. However, these new applications require a significant extrapolation of the<br />

operating parameters achieved at the FEL, such as beam energy and current.<br />

In 2001, a proposal was put forth to non-invasively test energy recovery on a<br />

large scale using CEBAF [19]. Because it is a recirculating linac, operating CEBAF<br />

with energy recovery requires only minor modifications. The two major components<br />

installed were a magnetic chicane to provide a half-RF wavelength delay and a beam<br />

dump. In 2003, 80 µA of average beam current was successfully energy recovered<br />

from 1056 MeV to the injection energy of 56 MeV [20]. The experiment demon-<br />

strated that large scale energy recovery - through 312 SRF cavities and transported<br />

through 1.3 km of beamline - is feasible. The details of this experiment are the topic<br />

of Chapter 2.<br />

The most recent ERL at Jefferson Laboratory is the upgrade to the IR FEL<br />

Demo. Regarding the driver, the most substantial upgrades are an additional two<br />

cryomodules to increase the beam energy to 145 MeV and doubling the injected<br />

current from 5 mA to 10 mA. In 2004 with all three cryomodules installed, 7.5 mA<br />

of average beam current was energy recovered from 145 MeV to 9 MeV [21]. This<br />

represents 1.1 MW of recirculating beam power. Due to insufficiently damped HOMs<br />

in the final cryomodule installed, beam breakup has developed at currents below<br />

the nominal operating current. The investigation of this instability in the FEL<br />

Upgrade is the primary topic of this dissertation and is covered in Chapter 3 through<br />

Chapter 7.<br />

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