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1.4 Fundamental ERL Challenges While ERLs exhibit tremendous potential, there also exist many formidable challenges. Generally speaking, these challenges can be grouped into three cate- gories: the injector, machine optics, and superconducting RF [22]. A brief intro- duction to some of the most important issues and challenges are discussed below, with particular attention towards applications to light sources. Issues specific to the Jefferson Laboratory FEL Driver will be addressed more fully in Chapter 3. 1.4.1 Injector The injector includes the gun and an accelerating, or booster, section. The injector is a vital component of an ERL because it determines, to a large extent, the beam quality that can be achieved. There has been much debate with regard to the type of gun best suited for ERL applications. Options include DC, normal conducting RF and superconducting RF guns [23]. While persuasive arguments can be made for each, regardless of the technology chosen, the gun must be able to provide a high brightness, high average current, cw electron beam. The most mature technology for cw applications is the DC gun which is used at both CEBAF and the FEL at Jefferson Laboratory. The FEL gun has delivered up to 9 mA of cw beam at a repetition rate of 74.85 MHz [24]. Extending the capability of a DC gun to produce a cw electron beam on the order of 100 mA will require increasing the cathode’s quantum efficiency and lifetime and designing a suitable drive laser system. Once the electron beam is extracted from the cathode, the challenge will be to generate, and then maintain, a small beam emittance. 15
1.4.2 Machine Optics The second category of challenges is machine optics which requires proper man- agement of the 6-dimensional beam phase space throughout the machine. There are three primary regions of interest: the linac optics, the recirculation optics and the merger optics. The linac optics requires a design that cleanly transports two co-propagating beams of different energy. The recirculation optics is vital in main- taining the beam quality delivered to the insertion device (accelerating beam) and then to the beam dump (decelerated, energy recovered beam). Finally, the merger section, where the low energy beam from the injector is merged with the high energy recirculated beam, must be carefully designed to avoid beam degradation. 1.4.3 Superconducting RF There exist many challenges with regard to SRF technology, including maxi- mizing the cryogenic efficiency, maintaining precise control of cavity fields in the presence of microphonics and Lorentz force detuning, achieving strong HOM damp- ing and efficiently extracting HOM power [25]. The issue of HOM damping is con- sidered specifically as insufficiently damped HOMs lead to BBU - one of the most severe performance limitations of ERLs. While high Qo and QL can be achieved for the fundamental mode in SRF cavities, an unfortunate consequence is the presence of HOMs with very high Qs as well. This requires strong HOM damping to avoid beam instabilities. Recirculating linacs, and ERLs in particular, are more susceptible to these instabilities because they can support currents approaching, or exceeding, the threshold current. The instability of greatest concern is transverse, multipass, multibunch beam breakup [26]. This form of BBU was first observed in 1977 at the Stanford SCA [11] and later that year at the University of Illinois’ MUSL-2 (Microtron Using a 16
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1.4 Fundamental ERL Challenges<br />
While ERLs exhibit tremendous potential, there also exist many formidable<br />
challenges. Generally speaking, these challenges can be grouped into three cate-<br />
gories: the injector, machine optics, and superconducting RF [22]. A brief intro-<br />
duction to some of the most important issues and challenges are discussed below,<br />
with particular attention towards applications to light sources. Issues specific to the<br />
Jefferson Laboratory FEL Driver will be addressed more fully in Chapter 3.<br />
1.4.1 Injector<br />
The injector includes the gun and an accelerating, or booster, section. The<br />
injector is a vital component of an ERL because it determines, to a large extent,<br />
the beam quality that can be achieved. There has been much debate with regard<br />
to the type of gun best suited for ERL applications. Options include DC, normal<br />
conducting RF and superconducting RF guns [23]. While persuasive arguments can<br />
be made for each, regardless of the technology chosen, the gun must be able to<br />
provide a high brightness, high average current, cw electron beam.<br />
The most mature technology for cw applications is the DC gun which is used<br />
at both CEBAF and the FEL at Jefferson Laboratory. The FEL gun has delivered<br />
up to 9 mA of cw beam at a repetition rate of 74.85 MHz [24]. Extending the<br />
capability of a DC gun to produce a cw electron beam on the order of 100 mA will<br />
require increasing the cathode’s quantum efficiency and lifetime and designing a<br />
suitable drive laser system. Once the electron beam is extracted from the cathode,<br />
the challenge will be to generate, and then maintain, a small beam emittance.<br />
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