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PHIL: a Test Beam line at LAL
WEPP078International audienceIn the framework of a European contract*, LAL is in charge of the construction of one photo-injector for the drive beam linac of the CLIC Test Facility 3 [1] at CERN. This contract together with national funds allowed LAL to build a home test accelerator, PHIL, with the same photo-injector as for CTF3. The goal is to undergo experiments on the design and technology of advanced RF guns, to develop diagnostics and feedback techniques, a part of the beam time will be also shared with users of the electron beam. So far, the construction of this accelerator at LAL was very much delayed because of the legal obligation to upgrade the radiation shielding in agreement with the actual radiation safety thresholds. The required civil engineering is now finished and the installation of the components is under way. We will first present a design of the accelerator and few dynamic simulation results. Finally we will give an up to date status of the accelerator construction
PHIL Accelerator at LAL - Diagnostic status
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/BIW2010/papers/tupsm100.pdfInternational audienceThe "Photo-Injector at LAL" (PHIL : http://phil.lal.in2p3.fr/) is a new electron beam accelerator at LAL. This accelerator is dedicated to test and characterise electron photo-guns and high-frequency structures for future accelerator projects (like the next generation lepton colliders, CLIC, ILC). This machine has been designed to produce low energy (E<10 MeV), small emittance (epsilon < 10 pi.mm.mrad), high current (charge 2 nC/bunch) electrons bunch at low repetition frequency (frep<10Hz) [1]. The first beam has been obtained on the 4th of November 2009. This paper will describe the current status and the futures developments of the diagnostics devices on this machine
Low Energy Beam Measurements Using PHIL Accelerator at LAL, Comparison with PARMELA Simulations
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/PAC2011/papers/wep210.pdfInternational audiencePHIL ("PHoto-Injector at LAL") is a new electron beam accelerator at LAL. This accelerator is dedicated to test and characterize electron RF-guns and to deliver electron beam to users. This machine has been designed to produce and characterise low energy (E<10 MeV), small emittance (e<10 p.mm.mrad), high brilliance electrons bunch at low repetition frequency (n<10Hz). The first beam has been obtained on the 4th of November 2009. The current RF-gun tested on PHIL is the AlphaX gun, a 2.5 cell S-band cavity designed by LAL for the plasma accelerator studies performed at the Strathclyde university. This paper will present the first AlphaX RF-gun characterizations performed at LAL on PHIL accelerator, and will show comparisons between measurements and PARMELA simulations
Physics and Technical Design for the Second High Energy Dispersive Section at PITZ.
International audienceResearch activities at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site, (PITZ) aim to develop and optimize high brightness electron sources for Free Electron Lasers (FELs) like FLASH and the European XFEL. To demon- strate the XFEL operation, an electron bunch train contain- ing 3250 pulses of 1 nC charge at 10 Hz repetition rate is required. The spectrometers and related equipments for studying the longitudinal phase space for such long pulse trains do not yet exist at PITZ. Design and construction of a new high energy dispersive arm (HEDA2) is currently in progress. Besides the requirement to handle long electron bunch trains, the HEDA2 setup is designed to allow high resolution measurements of momentum distribution up to 40 MeV/c, a longitudinal phase space measurement with slice momentum spread down to 1 keV/c and transverse slice emittance measurements at off-crest booster phases. The status of the physics design and technical considera- tions of this dispersive section will be presented