Experience with the Sperradiant THz user Facility Driven by a Quasi-CW SRF Accelerator at ELBE


Experience with the Sperradiant THz user Facility Driven by a Quasi-CW SRF Accelerator at ELBE

Bawatna, M.; Green, B. W.

Instabilities in beam and bunch parameters, such as bunch charge, beam energy, or changes in the phase or amplitude of the accelerating field in the RF cavities can be the source of noise in the various secondary sources driven by the electron beam. Bunch charge fluctuations lead to in-tensity instabilities in the superradiant THz sources. The primary electron beam driving the light sources has a maximum energy of 40 MeV and a maximum current of 1.6 mA. Depending on the mode of operation required, there are two available injectors in use at ELBE. The first is the thermionic injector, which is used for regular operating modes and supports repetition rates up to 13 MHz and bunch charges up to 100 pC. The second is the SRF photo-cathode injector, which is used for experiments that may require lower emittance or higher bunch charges of up to 1 nC. It has a maximum repetition rate of 13 MHz, which can be adjusted to lower rates if desired, also including different macro pulse modes of operation. In this contribution, we will present our work in the pulse-resolved intensity measurement that allows for the correction of intensity instabilities.

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