End-point energy measurements of field emission current in a continuous-wave normal-conducting rf injector

End-point energy measurements of field emission current in a continuous-wave normal-conducting rf injector

The LANL/AES normal-conducting radio-frequency injector has been tested at cw cathode gradients up to 10  MV/m. Field-emission electrons from a roughened copper cathode are accelerated to beam energy as high as 2.5 MeV and impinge on a stainless steel target. The energies of the resulting bremsstrah...

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Main Authors: D. C. Nguyen, N. A. Moody, H. L. Andrews, G. Bolme, L. J. Castellano, C. E. Heath, F. L. Krawczyk, S. I. Kwon, R. McCrady, F. A. Martinez, P. Marroquin, M. Prokop, R. M. Renneke, P. Roybal, W. T. Roybal, T. L. Tomei, P. A. Torrez, W. M. Tuzel, T. Zaugg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2011-03-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.14.030704
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Summary:The LANL/AES normal-conducting radio-frequency injector has been tested at cw cathode gradients up to 10  MV/m. Field-emission electrons from a roughened copper cathode are accelerated to beam energy as high as 2.5 MeV and impinge on a stainless steel target. The energies of the resulting bremsstrahlung photons are measured at varying levels of injector cavity rf power corresponding to different accelerating gradients. At low cavity power, the bremsstrahlung spectra exhibit well-defined end-point energies at the positions where the number of single-photon events decreases to one (S/N ratio=1). Increasing the cavity power raises the probability of two-photon events in which two photons simultaneously arrive at the detector and register counts at twice the photon energy. The end-point energies at high cavity power are recorded at positions where the single-photon events transition to two-photon events. The measured end-point energies using this method are in excellent agreement with PARMELA calculations based on the cavity gradients deduced from the cavity rf power measurements.
ISSN:1098-4402

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