IPAC'23 - 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference

A start-to-end optimisation of CLEAR for an inverse Compton scattering experiment, using RF-Track

TUPL180

9 May 2023, 16:30

2h

Sala Laguna

Poster Presentation MC2.A23: Other Linac Based Photon Sources Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Alexander Malyzhenkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

The CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) has been operating since 2017 as a user facility providing beams for various experiments. We created a start-to-end model of the CLEAR setup in RF-Track, aiming to optimise the CLEAR accelerator as a driver for an X-ray source based on inverse-Compton scattering. RF-Track, a CERN-developed particle tracking code, can simulate the generation, acceleration, and tracking of the electron beam from the cathode to the interaction point, across the entire accelerator. Additionally, RF-Track can compute the ICS interaction with an input laser beam, allowing for the first start-to-end optimisation of an ICS source using a single code. The optimisation was aimed to maximise the flux of the outcoming x-rays, while minimising the impact of static and dynamic imperfections. Sensitivity studies were performed, with an estimate of the effect of the jitter on the scattered photon flux.