16–21 Aug 2026
Daejeon Convention Center
Asia/Seoul timezone

L-band gun development and operation at DESY

MOPO031
17 Aug 2026, 16:00
2h
1F Exhibition Hall (Daejeon Convention Center)

1F Exhibition Hall

Daejeon Convention Center

Poster Presentation MC1.A02 Electron and ion sources, guns, photo injectors, charge breeders MOPO - Poster Session

Speaker

Dr Anne Oppelt (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

Description

Gun5, the new generation of normal-conducting 1.3 GHz RF guns for high-gradient and long-pulse operation at DESY’s linac driven free-electron lasers is in operation at PITZ and European XFEL. The improved gun design allows for RF pulse durations of up to 1 ms at 10 Hz repetition rate, at gradients of ~60 MV/m at the cathode. Special features are two RF pickups for RF regulation and a symmetric power coupler to reduce RF asymmetries.
Four cavities of the Gun5 type have already been produced, and three of them have been tested at PITZ. Two guns are currently in operation at PITZ and the European XFEL. This article will give an overview on the operation experiences with these gun cavities.

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Author

Dr Anne Oppelt (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

Co-authors

Namra Aftab (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Dr Avni Aksoy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Sepideh Aminzadeh Gohari (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Dr Zohrab Amirkhanyan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Frank Brinker (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) James Good (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Anna Grebinyk (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Matthias Gross (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Yuliia Komar (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Mikhail Krasilnikov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Biaobin Li (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Xiangkun Li (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Dr Siriwan Pakluea (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Christopher Richard (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Felix Riemer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Frank Stephan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Elif Tarakci (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Grygorii Vashchenko (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Daniel Villani (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Duo Xu (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Sumaira Zeeshan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

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