Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
2021
DOI
10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB092
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Pages
2802-2805
Conference Name
IPAC2021: 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference, May 24-28, 2021, Campinas, Brazil
Abstract
Production of high bunch charge beams for the ElectronIon Collider (EIC) is a challenging task. High bunch charge (a few nC) electron beam studies at Jefferson Lab using an inverted insulator DC high voltage photo-gun showed evidence of space charge limitations starting at 0.3 nC, limiting the maximum delivered bunch charge to 0.7 nC for beam at -225 kV, 75 ps (FWHM) pulse width, and 1.64 mm (rms) laser spot size. The low extracted charge is due to the modest longitudinal electric field (Ez) at the photocathode leading to beam loss at the anode and downstream beam pipe. To reach the few nC high bunch charge goal, and to correct the beam deflection exerted by the non-symmetric nature of the inverted insulator photo-gun the existing photo-gun was modified. This contribution discusses the electrostatic design of the modified photo-gun obtained using CST Studio Suite’s electromagnetic field solver. Beam dynamics simulations performed using General Particle Tracer (GPT) with the resulting electrostatic field map obtained from the modified electrodes confirmed the validity of the new design.
Rights
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Original Publication Citation
Wijethunga, S. A. K., Benesch, J., Delayen, J. R., Hernandez-Garcia, C., Krafft, G. A., Palacios-Serrano, G., Mamun, M. A., Poelker, M., & Suleiman, R. (2021) Redesign of the Jefferson Lab -300 kV DC photo-gun for high bunch charge operations. In L. Liu, J. Byrd, R. Neuenschwander, V.R.W. Schaa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference (pp. 2802-2805). JACoW. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB092
ORCID
0000-0002-0328-5828 (Krafft), 0000-0002-5331-6127 (Palacios Serrano)
Repository Citation
Wijethunga, S.A.K.; Benesch, J.; Delayen, Jean R.; Hernandez-Garcia, C.; Krafft, Geoffrey A.; Palacios-Serrano, Gabriel; Mamun, M.A.; Poelker, M.; and Suleiman, R., "Redesign of the Jefferson Lab -300 kV DC Photo-Gun for High Bunch Charge Operations" (2021). Physics Faculty Publications. 725.
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