Photonics (Dec 2020)
Scaling of Beam Collective Effects with Bunch Charge in the CompactLight Free-Electron Laser
- Simone Di Mitri,
- Andrea Latina,
- Marcus Aicheler,
- Avni Aksoy,
- David Alesini,
- Graeme Burt,
- Alejandro Castilla,
- Jim Clarke,
- Hector Mauricio Castañeda Cortés,
- Michele Croia,
- Gerardo D’Auria,
- Marco Diomede,
- David Dunning,
- Massimo Ferrario,
- Alessandro Gallo,
- Anna Giribono,
- Vitaliy Goryashko,
- Andrea Mostacci,
- Federico Nguyen,
- Regina Rochow,
- Jessica Scifo,
- Bruno Spataro,
- Neil Thompson,
- Cristina Vaccarezza,
- Alessandro Vannozzi,
- Xiaowei Wu,
- Walter Wuensch
Affiliations
- Simone Di Mitri
- Elettra–Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Trieste, Italy
- Andrea Latina
- European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Marcus Aicheler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Avni Aksoy
- Institute of Accelerator Technologies, Ankara University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
- David Alesini
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Graeme Burt
- Engineering Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
- Alejandro Castilla
- Engineering Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
- Jim Clarke
- ASTeC and Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
- Hector Mauricio Castañeda Cortés
- ASTeC and Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
- Michele Croia
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Gerardo D’Auria
- Elettra–Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Trieste, Italy
- Marco Diomede
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- David Dunning
- ASTeC and Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
- Massimo Ferrario
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Alessandro Gallo
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Anna Giribono
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Vitaliy Goryashko
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
- Andrea Mostacci
- Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy
- Federico Nguyen
- Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Regina Rochow
- Elettra–Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Trieste, Italy
- Jessica Scifo
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Bruno Spataro
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Neil Thompson
- ASTeC and Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
- Cristina Vaccarezza
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Alessandro Vannozzi
- National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
- Xiaowei Wu
- European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Walter Wuensch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics7040125
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 4
p. 125
Abstract
The CompactLight European consortium is designing a state-of-the-art X-ray free-electron laser driven by radiofrequency X-band technology. Rooted in experimental data on photo-injector performance in the recent literature, this study estimates analytically and numerically the performance of the CompactLight delivery system for bunch charges in the range 75–300 pC. Space-charge forces in the injector, linac transverse wakefield, and coherent synchrotron radiation in bunch compressors are all taken into account. The study confirms efficient lasing in the soft X-rays regime with pulse energies up to hundreds of microjoules at repetition rates as high as 1 kHz.
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