| Title |
Smith-Purcell Radiation for Bunch Length Measurements at the Injection of MESA |
| Authors |
- P. Heil
IKP, Mainz, Germany
- K. Aulenbacher
HIM, Mainz, Germany
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| Abstract |
MELBA is a test apparatus for the injector of the energy recovering, superconducting accelerator MESA in Mainz. A chopper-buncher system containing two circularly deflecting cavities and a first and second harmonic buncher cavity have been built. They serve to produce short bunches with a longitudinal extension < 600 μm (one degree of RF-phase) in the longitudinal focus for beam currents of up to 10mA. We intend to use Smith-Purcell Radiation (SPR) to test this arrangement. SPR is generated if a charged particle passes close to a periodic metallic structure, e.g. a grating. The signal has a coherent part which increases its intensity quadratically with the bunch charge if the bunch length is smaller than or comparable to the grating period. Different gratings can be placed below the electron beam to determine the length of the electron bunches. This measurement is non-destructive. The generated THz radiation will be observed with a bolometer cooled down to 4.2K which offers sufficient sensitivity in our regime of operation.
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| Funding |
Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (9th) |
| Proceedings |
Link to full IPAC2018 Proccedings |
| Session |
MC2 Poster Session |
| Date |
03-May-18 16:00–17:30 |
| Main Classification |
02 Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators |
| Sub Classification |
A18 Energy Recovery Linacs |
| Keywords |
radiation, detector, electron, operation, cavity |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editors |
Shane Koscielniak (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada); Todd Satogata (JLab, Newport News, VA, USA); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Jana Thomson (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada) |
| ISBN |
978-3-95450-184-7 |
| Published |
June 2018 |
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