Abstract
 

Unbalanced Gun Tune of 1.6 Cell RF Photo Gun for Optimal Beam Brightness
Vitaly Yakimenko
Brookhaven National Laboratory

 

We present experimental results of the measured beam brightness generated by unbalanced gun (fields are not equal in full and half cell). Unbalanced gun tuning allowed us to push the gradient in the half cell to 160 MV/m while a manufacturing imperfection limited the field gradient in the full cell at 110 MV/m. This allows us to further improve the beam quality, achieving another record: 1 micron RMS emittance with 0.8nC charge. Design of the 1.6 cell gun IV allows independent control of the temperature in the full and half cells of the gun. This opened the opportunity to conveniently study unbalanced gun tuning that has very important applications for high average current - high beam load injectors.

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