Speaker
Emily Frame
Description
The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator's main beamline -- the drive-beam beamline -- utilizes a $1 +\frac{1}{2}$-cell radiofrequency photoinjector at 1.3 GHz to produce high-charge bunches. This contribution discusses an experiment to investigate photoemission from the RF gun over a wide range of operation parameters spanning different emission regimes. It especially demonstrates the generation of a $>50$-nC bunches using a $\sim 300$-fs UV laser pulse corresponding to an initial multi-kA peak current. The measurements are compared with numerical simulations performed with the ASTRA beam dynamics program. The transport and further acceleration of these bunches are investigated via numerical simulations.
Primary authors
Emily Frame
Dr
Wanming Liu
(Argonne National Lab)
Philippe Piot
John Power
Charles Whiteford
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Dr
Eric Wisniewski
(Argonne National Lab)
