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Edit | Back | Add Paper| title: | Experiment to Measure Ramped Electron Bunches at the UCLA Neptune Laboratory Using a Transverse Deflecting Cavity |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop |
| year: | 2006 |
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| abstract: | A proof of principle experiment is underway at the UCLA Neptune laboratory to test the concept of generating linearly ramped relativistic electron bunches (rising in density from head to tail followed by a sharp cutoff) by using a sextupole-corrected dogleg section as a bunch compressor. Bunches with this structure have been predicted to be ideal for use as a plasma wake-field drive beam. The diagnostic being developed to measure the time profile of the beam is an X-Band (9.6 GHz) deflecting cavity. The recently completed cavity is a 9-cell standing wave structure operating in a TM110-like mode, designed to measure the temporal structure of the 2 to 10 ps, 14 MeV electron bunches generated by the Neptune S-band photoinjector and plane-wave transformer (PWT) accelerator beamline, with 50 fs resolution. We discuss the experimental plan for the ramped bunch experiment and present preliminary data related to the tuning and operation of the deflecting cavity. |
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