Abstract
 

Wakefields of Sub-picosecond Electron Bunches
Karl Bane
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

 

An X-ray FEL project, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), calls for the production of high energy bunches of electrons that are simultaneously short, intense, and have small emittances. Wakefields of the accelerator structures in the linac of the LCLS are an important ingredient in longitudinal phase space manipulation; other wakefields can degrade the beam emittance and, thus, the FEL performance. In this talk we discuss wakefields of extremely short bunches, as we find in the LCLS. In this regime of bunch length relatively new types of wakefields become important (e.g. roughness wake), and familiar wakefields exhibit new types of behavior (e.g. resistive-wall wake). In conclusion, we assess the importance of different wakes to LCLS performance.

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