Optimisation of a Radiofrequency Electron Photogun
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Abstract
The thermionic electron source which injects electron bunches to the accelerating complex\nof the Canadian Light Source (CLS) is ageing, does not produce electron bunches which\nare frequency matched to a harmonic of the booster ring accelerating frequency, and is not\nideally suited to producing single bunches of electrons. To improve the single bunch injection\nprocess and the overall injection efficiency, it has been proposed to install a high brightness\nradiofrequency photogun as a secondary electron injector to the CLS linear accelerator. The\nphotogun which has been acquired by the CLS and is proposed to fulfil this need was not\nconstructed to resonate at 3000.24 MHz — the sixth harmonic of the CLS booster ring\naccelerating field frequency — and as such the geometry of the photogun must be altered\nsuch that the resonant frequency matches the sixth harmonic of the CLS booster ring. To\ndesign changes to the photogun geometry 3D electromagnetic modelling software was used to\nnumerically simulate the electromagnetic field configuration within the photogun. Electrodynamic particle tracking software was used to predict the characteristics of electron bunches\nproduced by the photogun. Benchtop measurements using a vector network analyser were\nperformed to characterise the radiofrequency properties of the photogun. It was shown that\nthe photogun geometry can be altered such that the resonant frequency matches the desired\n3000.24 MHz. The simulated electron bunches using the new field configuration were shown to\nhave kinetic energy of 3.2 MeV, bunch size less than 1 mm, normalised transverse emittance\nless than 10 mm mrad, and an energy spread of 5 keV. These characteristics are appropriate for electron bunches which are to be injected into the CLS linear accelerator. The\nwork presented in this thesis indicates that the modified photogun is a suitable candidate\nbe installed as a branch line injector to the CLS linear accelerator. By including this re-optimised photogun as a secondary high brightness electron injector, the injection efficiency\ncan be improved by seamlessly transferring electron bunches from the electron source, to\nthe linear accelerator, to the booster ring by phase locking the harmonic frequencies of the\naccelerating waves.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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