D. Sertore

First operation of cesium telluride photocathodes in the TTF injector RF gun

Abstract During the run 1998/1999 a new injector based on a laser-driven RF gun was brought in operation at the TESLA Test Facility (TTF) linac at DESY, in order to produce the beam structure and quality required either by TeV collider and SASE FEL experiments. High quantum efficiency cesium telluride photocathodes, prepared at Milano and transferred to DESY, have been successfully operated in the RF gun. A bunch charge of 50xa0nC, only limited by space charge effects, was achieved. The photocathodes have shown an operative lifetime of several months. A new cathode surface finishing has showed a promising decrease of the photocathode dark current. Measurements of dark current, quantum efficiency and lifetime are reported.

Running experience with the laser system for the RF gun based injector at the TESLA Test Facility linac

During the run 1998/1999, the new injector based on a laser driven RF gun was brought into operation at the TESLA Test Facility Linac (TTFL) at DESY. A key element of the injector is the laser system to illuminate the RF gun cathode to produce short (ps) electron bunches of high charge (nC). This electron beam is used to perform various experiments for the future TESLA linear collider, and to drive the free electron laser TTF-FEL. The laser design is challenged by the unusual requirement of providing synchronized ps UV pulses in 0.8 ms long trains with ambitious stability requirements. The design was also driven by the requirement to have an operational system with a high reliability. The system is based on a mode locked solid-state (Nd:YLF) pulse train oscillator followed by a linear amplier chain. In a rst phase, a laser pulse rate of 1 MHz within the train has been realized, 2.25 MHz and 9 are in preparation. Performance and running experiences with the laser system during the last TTF run are reported. ( 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Recent Developments at PITZ

The ability to produce high brightness electron beams as required for modern Free Electron Lasers (FELs) has been demonstrated during the first stage of the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY Zeuthen (PITZ1). The electron source optimization at PITZ1 was successfully completed, resulting in the installation of the PITZ rf gun at the VUV-FEL (DESY, Hamburg). One of the main goals of the second stage of PITZ (PITZ2) is to apply higher gradients in the rf gun cavity in order to obtain smaller beam emittance by faster acceleration of the space charge dominated beams. In order to reach the required gradients a 10 MW klystron has to be installed and the gun cavity has to be conditioned for higher peak power. Another important goal of PITZ2 is a detailed study of the emittance conservation principle by using proper electron beam acceleration with a booster. Further photo injector optimization, including update of the photocathode laser and diagnostic tools, is foreseen as well. Recent progress on the PITZ developments will be reported.

First beam measurements at the photo injector test facility at DESY Zeuthen

The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY Zeuthen (PITZ) was built to develop electron sources for the TESLA Test Facility Free Electron Laser and future linear colliders. The main goal is to study the production of minimum transverse emittance beams with short bunch length at medium charge (∼1 nC). The facility includes a 1.5 cell L-band cavity with coaxial RF coupler, a solenoid for space charge compensation, a laser capable to generate long pulse trains, an UHV photo cathode exchange system, and different diagnostics tools. Besides an overview of the facility, its main components and their commissioning, this contribution will concentrate on the first measurements at PITZ with photoelectrons. This will include measurements of the transverse and longitudinal laser profile, charge and quantum efficiency, momentum and momentum spread, transverse electron beam profiles at different locations and first results on transverse emittance.

Emission Mechanisms in a Photocathode RF Gun

In photocathode rf guns, emission mechanisms at the photocathode play a crucial role in the overall beam dynamics. An electron beam with a low bunch charge as well as a short laser pulse length allow to study the emission mechanisms with a good phase definition and with a very small influence of the space charge force. This pa per presents experimental and numerical studies toward detailed understanding of the photo emission and secondary emission processes at the Cs2Te cathode.

Dark Current and Multipacting in the Photocathode RF Guns at PITZ

For photocathode rf guns, the amount of dark current depends on the cavity surface as well as on the photocathodes. Smooth conditioning reduces the amount of dark current. Multipacting in the gun cavity changes the surface status of the cathodes and sometimes obstructs the gun operation because of vacuum interlocks. In this paper, dark current and multipacting features of an rf gun are presented including experimental and simulation studies.

Conditioning of a new gun cavity towards 60 MV/m at PITZ

A new L-band photoelectron gun (prototype 3.2) has been installed for use with a 10 MW klystron at the Photo- Injector Test facility in Zeuthen (PITZ). This gun has been conditioned starting in April 2007 up to a maximum gradient of about 60 MV/m. The gun was tuned for resonance at 1.3 GHz, and stable operation has been achieved with 100 mus RF pulses with a repetition rate of 10 Hz. Over certain periods the gun has been conditioned at high gradient with RF pulses of 400 mus, and conditioning has to be continued at longer pulse lengths up to 700 mus. Maximum power in the gun has been achieved with a new RF waveguide phase shifter with a 2pi range. Dark current measurements have been performed with several cathodes, including uncoated molybdenum, electropolished uncoated molybdenum, and cesium telluride. Also, the first photoelectrons have been accelerated with the new gun cavity.

Use of non evaporable getter pumps to ensure long term performances of high quantum efficiency photocathodes

High quantum efficiency photocathodes are routinely used as laser triggered emitters in the advanced high brightness electron sources based on radio frequency guns. The sensitivity of “semiconductor” type photocathodes to vacuum levels and gas composition requires special care during preparation and handling. This paper will discuss the results obtained using a novel pumping approach based on coupling a 20u2009l s−1 sputter ion getter pump with a CapaciTorr® D100 non evaporable getter (NEG) pump. A pressure of 8⋅10−8u2009Pa was achieved using only a sputter ion pump after a 6u2009day bake-out. With the addition of a NEG pump, a pressure of 2⋅10−9u2009Pa was achieved after a 2u2009day bake-out. These pressure values were maintained without power due to the ability of the NEG to pump gases by chemical reaction. Long term monitoring of cathodes quantum efficiencies was also carried out at different photon wavelengths for more than two years, showing no degradation of the photoemissive film properties.

The International Linear Collider

The idea of using colliding beams to fully convert the energy of the accelerated beams into reaction products goes back to the middle of the last century. Colliding two particles with the same energy allows having in the center of mass all the energy transferred by the particle accelerator to them. In fixed target experiment instead only a fraction of the beam energy is available in the moving center of mass.

ESS SRF Linear Accelerator Components Preliminary Results and Integration

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a pan-European project and one of worlds largest research infrastructures based on neutron sources. This collaborative project is funded by a collaboration of 17 European countries and is under construction in Lund, Sweden. The 5 MW, 2.86 ms long pulse proton accelerator has a repetition frequency of 14 Hz (4 % duty cycle), and a beam current of 62.5 mA. The Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) linac is composed of three families of Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) cavities, which are being prototyped, counting the spoke resonators with a geometric beta of 0.5, medium-beta elliptical cavities (beta_{g}=0.67) and high-beta elliptical cavities (beta_{g}=0.86). After a description of the ESS linear accelerator layout, this article will focus on the recent progress towards integration of the first test results of the main critical components to be assembled in cryomodules, then in the ESS tunnel.