10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Preliminary computational study on minimizing longitudinal emittance in photoinjector

WEP069
13 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Poster Presentation MC3 - Novel Particle Sources, Acceleration Techniques, and their Applications WEP: Wednesday Poster Session

Speaker

MinKyu Seo (Korea University Sejong Campus)

Description

Recently, we proposed a novel photoinjector that incorporates an emittance exchange (EEX) beamline. Previous studies demonstrated promising 4D emittance performance of an EEX-based injector, but the beam’s longitudinal emittance at the linac exit still limits the final transverse emittance downstream of the EEX stage. We performed a comprehensive scan of injector parameters—including gun phase, laser spot size and pulse length, and solenoid strengths—to (1) estimate the minimum achievable longitudinal emittance, (2) identify sources of emittance growth, and (3) explore mitigation strategies. Here, we present the status of this study. Simulations were carried out using General Particle Tracer (GPT) including space-charge effects.

Footnotes

Min Kyu Seo, Seong Hee Park
Department of Accelerator Science, Korea University, Sejong30019, Korea
Gwang Hui Ha

Dept. of Physics, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 60115 U.S.
E-mail: tjalsrb1@korea.ac.kr
, gha@niu.edu**

Funding Agency

Start-up support from Northern Illinois University.
National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grand founded by the Korea government(MSIT) (RS-2022-00143178 and RS-2024-00416252).

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Author

MinKyu Seo (Korea University Sejong Campus)

Co-authors

Gwanghui Ha (Northern Illinois University) Seong Hee Park (Korea University Sejong Campus)

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