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Hauptverfasser: Tan, Wei Hou, Robles, River, Hernandez, Juan, Nanni, Emilio Alessandro, Dhar, Ankur
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07592
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author Tan, Wei Hou
Robles, River
Hernandez, Juan
Nanni, Emilio Alessandro
Dhar, Ankur
author_facet Tan, Wei Hou
Robles, River
Hernandez, Juan
Nanni, Emilio Alessandro
Dhar, Ankur
contents One pathway to producing high brightness electron beams is to use a radio-frequency (rf) driven high field photogun to rapidly accelerate photoemitted electrons to the relativistic regime and preserve the brightness. However, the highest attainable field is limited by rf breakdowns of materials used in a photogun. Shortening rf pulse duration feeding into a photogun provides a viable pathway to achieve high field and prevent rf breakdowns. Here we propose and investigate Compressed Ultrashort Pulse Injector Demonstrator (CUPID), a nanosecond rf pulses driven photogun powered by a klystron and rf pulse compression system capable of achieving 300 MW at 20 ns duration, to produce bright electron beams with high electric field. We first introduce the design of the CUPID photogun and its expected rf performance at 500 MV/m driven by high power nanosecond rf pulses, followed by beam dynamics studies showing its capability for producing bright electron beams with 60 nm emittance when forming a photoinjector with a superconducting solenoid and downstream accelerating structures. Finally, we show a proof-of-concept start-to-end simulation of the CUPID photoinjector paired with the existing Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) copper accelerator free-electron laser (FEL) to demonstrate achievable mJ pulse energy very hard x-ray photons at 40 keV or higher.
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spellingShingle Nanosecond Radio-Frequency Pulse Driven Photogun for Very Hard X-ray Free-electron Laser
Tan, Wei Hou
Robles, River
Hernandez, Juan
Nanni, Emilio Alessandro
Dhar, Ankur
Accelerator Physics
One pathway to producing high brightness electron beams is to use a radio-frequency (rf) driven high field photogun to rapidly accelerate photoemitted electrons to the relativistic regime and preserve the brightness. However, the highest attainable field is limited by rf breakdowns of materials used in a photogun. Shortening rf pulse duration feeding into a photogun provides a viable pathway to achieve high field and prevent rf breakdowns. Here we propose and investigate Compressed Ultrashort Pulse Injector Demonstrator (CUPID), a nanosecond rf pulses driven photogun powered by a klystron and rf pulse compression system capable of achieving 300 MW at 20 ns duration, to produce bright electron beams with high electric field. We first introduce the design of the CUPID photogun and its expected rf performance at 500 MV/m driven by high power nanosecond rf pulses, followed by beam dynamics studies showing its capability for producing bright electron beams with 60 nm emittance when forming a photoinjector with a superconducting solenoid and downstream accelerating structures. Finally, we show a proof-of-concept start-to-end simulation of the CUPID photoinjector paired with the existing Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) copper accelerator free-electron laser (FEL) to demonstrate achievable mJ pulse energy very hard x-ray photons at 40 keV or higher.
title Nanosecond Radio-Frequency Pulse Driven Photogun for Very Hard X-ray Free-electron Laser
topic Accelerator Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07592