Laserwire at the Accelerator Test Facility 2 with submicrometer resolution

L.J. Nevay, S.T. Boogert, P. Karataev, K. Kruchinin, L. Corner, D.F. Howell, R. Walczak, A. Aryshev, J. Urakawa, N. Terunuma

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Abstract

A laserwire transverse electron beam size measurement system has been developed and operated at the Accelerator Test Facility 2 at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan (KEK). Special electron beam optics were developed to create an approximately 1×100μm (vertical×horizontal) electron beam at the laserwire location, which was profiled using 150 mJ, 71 ps laser pulses with a wavelength of 532 nm. The precise characterization of the laser propagation allows the non-Gaussian laserwire scan profiles caused by the laser divergence to be deconvolved. A minimum vertical electron beam size of 1.07±0.06(stat)±0.05 (sys) μm was measured. A vertically focusing quadrupole just before the laserwire was varied while making laserwire measurements and the projected vertical emittance was measured to be 82.56±3.04  pm rad.
Original languageEnglish
Article number072802
Pages (from-to)1-17
Number of pages17
JournalPhysical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Volume17
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jul 2014

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