Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-MOP055

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 6th North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC 2025)

Pages

173-176

Conference Name

6th North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC 2025), August 10-15, 2025, Sacramento, California

Abstract

The emittance exchange (EEX) beamline at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) is designed to transfer properties of an electron beam phase space between the transverse and longitudinal planes. Recently, it has been proposed this beamline could be used to convert a microscale transverse modulation created by a TEM grid into a microbunch train in the longitudinal plane. Such a technique would be useful for obtaining nano-scale microbunching that does not rely on the sensitive process of FEL gain. This new approach has been proposed to enable development of a compact free-electron laser at Arizona State, greatly reducing size and cost compared with existing short wavelength FELs. To perform an exploratory demonstration of this concept at AWA, this experiment requires low normalized emittance (≈50 nm·rad), low charge (≈1pC) electron bunches, and transverse diagnostics with high-resolution (1-3 microns) and high-light-collection to resolve the modulation on the electron beam. This report will give a progress update on preparing the necessary beams and diagnostics at AWA for an emittance exchange experiment that would produce 100s of nm scale microbunches.

Rights

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Original Publication Citation

Margraf-O’Neal, R., Ody, A., Power, J., Hlavenka, J., Temizel Ozdemir, B. N., Andonian, G., Carlsten, B., DeSimone, A., Ha, G., Halavanau, A., Xu, H., Majernik, N., Maxson, J., Parrack, A., Ryne, R., Yadav, M., Yampolsky, N., & Rosenzweig, J. (2025). Low-charge, high resolution beamline preparation for the nanopatterned microbunching experiment at Argonne Wakefield Accelerator. In T. O. Raubenheimer, R. A. Marsh, E. Prebys, L. Wang, P. M. Anisimov, K. Bishofberger, G. Bruno, Z. Chen, J. Chrin, K. Jaje, J. Lee, M. Montres-Loera, M. Saethre, T. Summers & K. Wootton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC 2025) (pp. 173-176). JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-MOP055

ORCID

0000-0002-6567-4431 (Yadav)

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