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An Alternate Method to Generate Continuous Wave Beams for Hard-X-ray FEL

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19 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC2.A06: Free Electron Lasers (FELs) Poster session

Speaker

Nikhil Bachhawat (Stony Brook University)

Description

SRF CW accelerator constructed for Coherent electron Cooling (CeC) Proof-of-principle (POP) experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory has frequently demonstrated record parameters using 1.5 nC 350 ps long electron bunches, typically compressed to FWHM of 30 ps using ballistic compression. We report experimental demonstration of CW electron beam with parameters fully satisfying requirements for hard X-ray FEL and significantly exceeding those demonstrated by APEX LCLS II electron gun. This was achieved using a 10-year-old SRF gun with a modest accelerating gradient of ~15 MV/m, a bunching cavity followed by ballistic compression in LEBT to generate 100 pC, ~15 ps FWHM electron bunches with a normalized slice emittance of ~0.15 mm-mrad and a normalized projected emittance of ~0.19 mm-mrad. Hence, in this paper, we present an alternative method for generating CW electron beams for hard-X-ray FELs using existing and proven accelerator technology.

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Author

Nikhil Bachhawat (Stony Brook University)

Co-authors

Gang Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Igor Pinayev (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Jean Clifford Brutus (Brookhaven National Laboratory) John Skaritka (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Jun Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Luca Cultrera (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Vladimir Litvinenko (Stony Brook University) Yichao Jing (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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