IPAC'24 - 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Status of cavity-based X-ray free electron laser project at SLAC

MOPG44

20 May 2024, 16:00

2h

Bluegrass (MCC Exhibit Hall A)

Poster Presentation MC2.A06 Free Electron Lasers Monday Poster Session

Speaker

Dr Aliaksei Halavanau (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Cavity-based X-ray free electron laser (CBXFEL) is the proposed scheme to dramatically improve stability and coherence of the existing XFELs. A project to demonstrate proof-or-principle CBXFEL is underway at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with Argonne National Lab (ANL, USA) and RIKEN Research Institute (Japan). CBXFEL is expected to operate at 9.831 keV photon energy, using synthetic diamonds as cavity Bragg mirrors. LCLS copper linac will deliver two electron bunches 624 RF buckets apart, resulting in the total X-ray cavity size of about 65500.87 mm. In this proceeding, we present the final design of the X-ray cavity, including photon and electron beam subsystems, and report on projected performance and current installation status.