Overview of the present status of the SRF gun design and construction

A status report on the SRF photo-injector activities at FZR within the CARE/PHIN project will be given. The new SRF gun has been designed for CW operation at the ELBE linac with an average current of 1 mA, 77 pC bunch charge, and 10 MeV energy. The basic concept of the gun, operating a normal conducting, thermally insolated photo-cathode within a superconducting cavity, have been taken from the first SRF half-cell gun [1] which was successfully tested. In this report the design layout of the SRF photo-injector, the parameters of the superconducting cavity and the expected electron beam parameters are presented. The SRF gun will have a 31/2-cell niobium cavity working at 1.3 MHz and will be operated at 2 K. The cavity consists of three full cells with TESLA-like shapes and a half-cell in which the photocathode is situated.