LIMITATIONS OF INTRABEAM SCATTERING THEORIES FOR HIGH-DENSITY BEAMS
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Surface impedance formalism for a metallic beam pipe with small corrugations
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Laser Phase Errors in Seeded Free Electron Lasers
Harmonic seeding of free electron lasers has attracted significant attention as a method for producing transform-limited pulses in the soft x-ray region. Harmonic multiplication schemes extend seeding to shorter wavelengths, but also amplify the spectral phase errors of the initial seed laser, and may degrade the pulse quality and impede production of transform-limited pulses. In this paper we consider the effect of seed laser phase errors in high gain harmonic generation and echo-enabled harmonic generation. We use simulations to confirm analytical results for the case of linearly chirped seed lasers, and extend the results for arbitrary seed laser envelope and phase.
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Recent Beam Measurements and New Instrumentation at the Advanced Light Source
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) in Berkeley was the first of the soft x-ray third generation light source ever built, and since 1993 has been in continuous and successful operation serving a large community of users in the VUV and soft x-ray community. During these years the storage ring underwent through several important upgrades that allowed maintaining the performance of this veteran facility at the forefront. The ALS beam diagnostics and instrumentation have followed a similar path of innovation and upgrade and nowadays include most of the modem and last generation devices and technologies that are commercially available and used in the recently constructed third generation light sources. In this paper we will not focus on such already widely known systems, but we will concentrate our effort in the description of some measurements techniques, instrumentation and diagnostic systems specifically developed at the ALS and used during the last few years.
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Corrugated Pipe as a Beam Dechirper
We have studied the use of a metallic pipe with small corrugations for the purpose of passively dechirping, through its wakefield, a short, intense electron bunch. The corrugated pipe is attractive for this purpose because its wake: (i) has near maximal possible amplitude for a given aperture and (ii) has a relatively large oscillation wave length, even when the aperture is small. We showed how the corrugated structure can satisfy dechirping requirements encountered in the NGLS project at LBNL. We found that a linear chirp of -40 MeV/mm can be induced by an NGLS-like beam, by having it pass through a corrugated, metallic pipe of radius 3 mm, length 8.2 m, and corrugation parameters full depth 450 μm and period 1000 μm. This structure is about 15 times as effective in the role of dechirper as an S-band accelerator structure used passively.
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All-optical Time-resolved Measurement of Laser Energy Modulation in a Relativistic Electron Beam
Hamiltonian light-front theory has been proposed as a promising method for solving bound states problems in quantum field theory a long time ago, see, e.g., the review article[1] for its various advantages compared to the traditional instant-form theories. Recently the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach [2, 3] has been developed as a nonperturbative approach to solve Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory. Numerical efficiency is a key advantage of this approach. The basic idea of BLFQ is to represent the theory in an optimal basis which respects many symmetries of the theory and thus minimizes the dimensionality of the Hamiltonian for a fixed precision. Specifically, the BLFQ approach employs a plane wave basis in the light-front longitudinal direction and a 2D harmonic oscillator basis in the transverse directions. In previous work [3] this approach has been applied to evaluate the anomalous magnetic moment of electrons which are confined in an external trap with an extrapolation to the zero trap limit. In this work we extend and improve this approach in several aspects including the direct evaluation of a free electron system. This article is organized as follows: In Sec. 2 we discuss the key extensions and improvements made in this work over Ref [3]; in Sec. 3 we present the numerical results for the electron anomalous magnetic moment evaluated in different harmonic oscillator bases and compare to the perturbation theory result. Finally we conclude and give an outline for future works in Sec. 4.
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Generation of Intense Attosecond X-Ray Pulses Using Ultraviolet Laser Induced Microbunching in Electron Beams
We propose a scheme that combines the echo-enabled harmonic generation technique with the bunch compression and allows one to generate harmonic numbers of a few hundred in a microbunched beam through up-conversion of the frequency of an ultraviolet seed laser. A few-cycle intense laser is used to generate the required energy chirp in the beam for bunch compression and for selection of an attosecond x-ray pulse. Sending this beam through a short undulator results in an intense isolated attosecond x-ray pulse. Using a representative realistic set of parameters, we show that 1 nm x-ray pulse with peak power of a few hundred MW and duration as short as 20 attoseconds (FWHM) can be generated from a 200 nm ultraviolet seed laser. The proposed scheme may enable the study of electronic dynamics with a resolution beyond the atomic unit of time ({approx}24 attoseconds) and may open a new regime of ultrafast sciences.
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Commissioning the Echo-Seeding Experiment Echo-7 at SLAC
ECHO-7 is a proof-of-principle echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) FEL experiment in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) at SLAC. The experiment is intended to test the EEHG principle at low electron beam energy, 120 MeV, and determine the sensitivities and limitations to understand the expected performance at the higher energy scales and harmonic numbers required for x-ray FELs. In this paper we present the experimental results from the commissioning run of the completed experimental setup which started in April 2010.
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Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation for Seeded FELs
In the x-ray wavelengths, the two leading FEL concepts are the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) configuration and the high-gain harmonic generation (HGHG) scheme. While the radiation from a SASE FEL is coherent transversely, it typically has rather limited temporal coherence. Alternatively, the HGHG scheme allows generation of fully coherent radiation by up-converting the frequency of a high-power seed laser. However, due to the relatively low up-frequency conversion efficiency, multiple stages of HGHG FEL are needed in order to generate x-rays from a UV laser. The up-frequency conversion efficiency can be greatly improved with the recently proposed echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) technique. In this work we will present the concept of EEHG, and address some practically important issues that affect the performance of the seeding. We show how the EEHG can be incorporated in the FEL scheme and what is the expected performance of the EEHG seeded FEL. We will then briefly describe the first proof-of-principle EEHG experiment carried out at the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) at SLAC. We will also discuss latest advances in the echo-scheme approach, and refer to subsequent modifications of the original concept.
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CALCULATING POINT-CHARGE WAKEFIELDS FROM FINITE LENGTH BUNCH WAKE-POTENTIALS
Starting from analytical properties of high frequency geometric impedance we show how one can accurately calculate short bunch wake-potentials (and even point-charge wakefields) from time domain calculations performed with a much longer bunch. In many practical instances this drastically reduces the need for computer resources, speeds up the calculations, and improves their accuracy. To illustrate this method we give examples for 2D accelerator structures of various complexities. We describe preliminary results of a new method that allows us to accurately obtain longitudinal wakefields of short bunches by adding a long-bunch result from an EM solver and a singular analytical wake model. In the future this work will be generalized to 3D geometries as well. Similarly, the method should be equally applicable to the calculations of transverse wakefields. Periodic structures with a significant number of periods (2 {ge} a{sup 2}/{sigma}L, where L is the period length) have not been considered so far. They have asymptotic wakefields that differ from the examples described above. We believe this method is applicable to such geometries as well, as long as correct asymptotic solutions are used.
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