Tartisma Oturumu: PHIN photo-injector as the CLIC drive beam source, Dr. Oznur Mete
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Oznur Mete
Description
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study proposes a multi-TeV, high luminosity, electron-positronlinear collider in order to fulfill the current need for a lepton collider. The study has been started in the late 80sat CERN and currently is a joint effort with a collaboration of 40 institutes. An innovative scheme of high peakRF power production for the high accelerating gradient has been proposed for CLIC. The so called "two-beamscheme" consists of two beams that are running parallel to each other. One of the beams is to be acceleratedfor the collision experiments and called "the main beam". The second beam of the CLIC scheme is "the drivebeam" and will be employed for the power production. The quality of the main beam acceleration depends onthe stability of the power that is generated by the drive beam. Therefore, the optimization of the drive beamproduction with the proper time structure and within the required beam dynamics tolerances is one of the mostimportant accelerator physics aspects of the project.
Currently in the conceptual level, the baseline design of the drive beam injector consists of a thermionicgun. This electron source has to be combined with a sub-harmonic bunching system in order to provide therequired time structure of the drive beam. However, a big disadvantage of this scheme is the parasitic satellitebunches that are produced due to the sub-harmonic bunching system. PHIN photoinjector has been raised asanother option in order to replace the existing thermionic gun of CLIC test facility (CTF3) and to form thebases of a source for the CLIC drive beam. The PHIN project is in the framework of the European CARE(Coordinated Accelerator Research in Europe) program.
In this talk the highlights from the design and the commissioning of the PHIN photoinjector will be presented.
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Concerning the latest results, the slides will be attached later.
The previous work can be found in the papers that are given below.