IPAC'23 - 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Engineering, Manufacturing and Validation of Microwave Thermionic Electron Gun for Advanced Photon Source Upgrade*

TUPA022

9 May 2023, 16:30

2h

Salone Adriatico

Poster Presentation MC2.T02: Electron Sources Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Osvaldo Chimalpopoca (RadiaBeam Technologies)

Description

Recently, RadiaBeam has designed, manufactured, high power tested and delivered a robust production ready S-Band thermionic RF gun with optimized electromagnetic performance, improved thermal engineering and robust yet precise cathode mounting technique. This gun will facilitate performance improvements of existing and future light sources, industrial accelerators, and electron beam driven terahertz sources. Unlike conventional electrically or side-coupled RF guns, this new gun operates on pi-mode, with a help of magnetic coupling holes. This new iteration of thermionic electron gun was redesigned for cost efficiency without sacrificing performance. Thermal simulations, mechanical engineering, manufacturing and high power testing results will be presented.

Funding Agency

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, under contracts DE-SC0015191 and DE- AC02-06CH11357.

Footnotes

• This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, under contracts DE-SC0015191 and DE- AC02-06CH11357.