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Lemery F, Piot P, Amatuni G, Boonpornprasert P, Chen Y, Good J, Grigoryan B, Groß M, Krasilinikov M, Lishilin O, Loisch G, Oppelt A, Philipp S, Qian H, Renier Y, Stephan F, Zagorodnov I. Passive Ballistic Microbunching of Nonultrarelativistic Electron Bunches Using Electromagnetic Wakefields in Dielectric-Lined Waveguides. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:044801. [PMID: 30768287 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.044801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Temporally modulated electron beams have a wide array of applications ranging from the generation of coherently enhanced electromagnetic radiation to the resonant excitation of electromagnetic wakefields in advanced-accelerator concepts. Likewise producing low-energy ultrashort microbunches could be useful for ultrafast electron diffraction and new accelerator-based light-source concepts. In this Letter we propose and experimentally demonstrate a passive microbunching technique capable of forming a picosecond bunch train at ∼6 MeV. The method relies on the excitation of electromagnetic wakefields as the beam propagates through a dielectric-lined waveguide. Owing to the nonultrarelativistic nature of the beam, the induced energy modulation eventually converts into a density modulation as the beam travels in a following free-space drift. The modulated beam is further accelerated to ∼20 MeV while preserving the imparted density modulation.
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Affiliation(s)
- F Lemery
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator & Detector Development and Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Illinois 60115, USA
- Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission, Yerevan 0040, Armenia
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission, Yerevan 0040, Armenia
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Platannenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Piot P, Behrens C, Gerth C, Dohlus M, Lemery F, Mihalcea D, Stoltz P, Vogt M. Generation and characterization of electron bunches with ramped current profiles in a dual-frequency superconducting linear accelerator. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 108:034801. [PMID: 22400747 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.034801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
We report on the successful experimental generation of electron bunches with ramped current profiles. The technique relies on impressing nonlinear correlations in the longitudinal phase space using a superconducing radio frequency linear accelerator operating at two frequencies and a current-enhancing dispersive section. The produced ~700-MeV bunches have peak currents of the order of a kilo-Ampère. Data taken for various accelerator settings demonstrate the versatility of the method and, in particular, its ability to produce current profiles that have a quasilinear dependency on the longitudinal (temporal) coordinate. The measured bunch parameters are shown, via numerical simulations, to produce gigavolt-per-meter peak accelerating electric fields with transformer ratios larger than 2 in dielectric-lined waveguides.
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Affiliation(s)
- P Piot
- Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator & Detector Development and Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
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