Abstract
 

Conceptual Design of a 1 kA, 100 fs, 1 Micron Split RF-photoinjector
Bas van der Geer
University of Twente

 

Standard rf-photoguns lose orders of magnitude in RMS brightness due to curvature and twist in the 6 dimensional phase-space. Because uniformly filled ellipsoidal ('waterbag') bunches have linear self-fields in all dimensions, they do not suffer from these deteriorating effects. The combination of waterbag electron bunches and ballistic bunching leads to a new type of rf-photoinjector where the first half-cell is separated from the second cell(s). Detailed GPT simulations of such a device, including realistic fields, 3D space-charge effects, path-length differences and image charges at the cathode will be presented. It will be shown that with a single 10 MW S-band klystron and fields below 100 MV/m, 100 pC bunches with a peak-current of 1 kA can be created with a FWHM duration below 100 fs and an emittance below 1 micron.

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