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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-FEL2015-MOP057
Title Front End Simulations and Design for the CLARA FEL Test Facility
Authors
  • J.W. McKenzie, A.D. Brynes, B.L. Militsyn
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Abstract We present the design and simulations of the Front End for CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications), the proposed UK FEL test facility at Daresbury Laboratory. This is based around an S-band RF photocathode gun. Initially this will be the 2.5 cell gun, currently used on VELA facility at Daresbury, which is limited to 10 Hz repetition rate. Later, this will be up-graded to a 1.5 cell gun, currently under development, which will allow repetition rates of up to 400 Hz to be reached. The beam will be accelerated up to 50 MeV with a booster linac which will be operated in both bunching and boosting modes for different operating regimes of CLARA. Simulations are presented for a currently achieved performance of the RF system and drive laser with optimisation of the laser pulse lengths for various operational modes of CLARA.
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Conference FEL2015, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Series International Free Electron Laser Conference (37th)
Proceedings Link to full FEL2015 Proccedings
Session Poster Session
Date 24-Aug-15   15:00–17:00
Main Classification Electron Beam Dynamics
Keywords laser, emittance, gun, linac, simulation
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Heung-Sik Kang (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Dong Eon Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany);
ISBN 978-3-95450-134-2
Published December 2015
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