The paper considers the process of Thomson scattering of coherent diffraction radiation (CDR) produced by the preceding bunch of the accelerator on one of the following bunches. It is shown that the yield of scattered hard photons is proportional to N$_e^3$, where N$_e$ is the number of electrons per bunch. A geometry is chosen for the CDR generation and an expression is obtained for the scattered photon spectrum with regard to the geometry used, that depends in an explicit form on the bunch size. A technique is proposed for measuring the bunch length using scattered radiation characteristics.
We present the design of a high repetition rate MeV energy ultrafast electron diffraction instrument based on a DC photoelectron gun and an SRF linac with multiple independently controlled accelerating and bunching cavities. The design is based on the existing Cornell photoinjector, which can readily be applied to the presented findings. Using particle tracking simulations in conjunction with multiobjective genetic algorithm optimization, we explore the smallest bunch lengths, emittance, and probe spot sizes achievable. We present results for both stroboscopic conditions (with single electrons…
Improving temporal resolution of ultrafast electron diffraction by eliminating arrival time jitter induced by radiofrequency bunch compression cavities
An elegant and convenient rigorous approach for solving circular open-ended dielectric-loaded waveguide diffraction problems is presented. It uses the solution of corresponding Wiener-Hopf-Fock equation and leads to an infinite linear system for reflection coefficients (S-parameters) of the waveguide, the latter can be efficiently solved numerically using the reducing technique. As a specific example directly applicable to beam-driven radiation sources based on dielectric-lined capillaries, diffraction of a slow TM symmetrical mode at the open end of a circular waveguide with uniform dielectri…
A rigorous approach for solving canonical circular open-ended dielectric-lined waveguide diffraction problems is presented. This is continuation of our recent paper [1] where a simpler case of uniform dielectric filling has been considered. Here we deal with the case of an open-ended circular waveguide with layered dielectric filling which is closer to potential applications. The presented method uses the solution of corresponding Wiener-Hopf-Fock equation and leads to an infinite linear system for reflection coefficients (S-parameters) of the waveguide, the latter can be efficiently solved nu…
Numerical calculations of a high brilliance synchrotron source and on issues with characterizing strong radiation damping effects in non-linear Thomson/Compton backscattering experiments
大量的理论计算研究了辐射反作用力对强场反向传播电子束-激光相互作用中辐射分布的影响，但是这些影响--包括量子校正--是否能在与真实的聚束和聚焦场的相互作用中观察到，正如许多即将提出的实验所希望的那样？我们提出了数值计算的角度分辨辐射光谱的电子束团的参数类似于激光尾场加速实验中产生的，与强烈的，超短激光脉冲相互作用。对于我们的参数，辐射阻尼对\emph{photons}的角分布和能量分布的影响是不容易辨别的一个"现实的"中等发射度电子束。然而，使用这种反向传播的光束-激光器几何形状的实验应该能够通过测量\emph{electron beam}性质来测量使用当前激光系统的这种效应。此外，该源的亮度非常高，峰值光谱亮度超过$10^{29}$光子$\,$ s $^{-1}$ mm $^{-2}$ mrad $^{-2}(0.1$ %带宽$)^{-1}$，效率约为2%，峰值能量为10 MeV。
In this paper, we use an envelope equation-based approach to obtain analytical scaling laws for the shortest pulse length achievable using radiofrequency (RF) based bunch compression. The derived formulas elucidate the dependencies on the electron beam energy and beam charge and reveal how to obtain bunches containing 1 million electrons with single-digit fs pulse lengths; relativistic energies are strongly desirable. The effect of the non-linearities associated with the RF curvature and the beam propagation in a drift is shown to strongly limit the attainability of extreme compression ratios.…
For usual radiation the integral of the electric field strength over the time is zero. First time the possibility of unipolar radiation generation has been considered theoretically in the paper [EG.Bessonov. Preprint No 76 of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Science of the USSR, Moscow, 1990]. According to this work the unipolar radiation is radiation for which the integral of the electric field strength over the time differs significantly from zero. Futher a number of theoretical articles have been devoted to this problem mainly in respect to a synchrotron radiation. However u…
Longitudinal charge profile measurements or bunch shape measurements is a challenge for temporally short non-relativistic bunches. The field profile has a larger longitudinal extent compared to the charge profile for such beams. This affects the ability of field sensing devices such as phase pick-ups or wall current monitors to measure charge distribution. Here we evaluate the feasibility for usage of coherent transition and diffraction radiation from non-relativistic beams for bunch shape measurements.
Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a technique in which short-pulse electron beams can probe the femtosecond-scale evolution of atomic structure in matter driven far from equilibrium. As an accelerator physics challenge, UED imposes stringent constraints on the brightness of the probe electron beam. The low normalized emittance employed in UED, often at the 10 nm scale and below, is particularly sensitive to both applied field aberrations and space charge effects. The role of aberrations is increasingly important in small probe systems that often feature multiple orders of magnitude varia…
We compute a spectrum of parametric X-ray radiation (PXR) inside a crystal from a bunch of electrons, which is periodically modulated in density. We consider that the bunch of electrons is exiting from a XFEL channel. We demonstrate that in the case of a resonance between the frequency of parametric X-ray radiation and a frequency of modulation of an electron bunch the sequence of strong quasi-monochromatic X-ray pulses is formed -- superradiant parametric X-ray emission (SPXE) with frequencies multiples of the modulation frequency. The number of photons in the impulse of SPXE in the case of a…
We propose a physical design of a compact all optical terahertz (THz)-driven electron source. The 300 mm accelerator beamline, powered by Joule level laser system, is easily to be integrated to tabletop scale. A dual-feed THz-driven electron gun with an exponential impedance, a tapered dielectric loaded cylindrical waveguide, THz-driven bunch compressors and permanent magnet solenoids (PMS) have been designed and optimized. Dynamics simulations show that the electron source can deliver a 19 fC, 3 MeV electron beams with a normalized transverse emittance of 0.079 π.mm.mrad. A minimum relative e…
Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校物理系综合等离子体研究中心）；Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University（斯坦福大学应用物理系）；SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory（SLAC国家加速器实验室）
