Start to end simulations of the ERL prototype at Daresbury Laboratory

Gerth, C and Bowler, M and Muratori, B and Faatz, B and Owen, H L and McNeil, B W J (2005) Start to end simulations of the ERL prototype at Daresbury Laboratory. In: UNSPECIFIED. (https://doi.org/10.1109/PAC.2005.1590863)

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Abstract

Daresbury Laboratory is currently building an Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP) that will serve as a research and development facility for the study of beam dynamics and accelerator technology important to the design and construction of the proposed 4th Generation Light Source (4GLS) project. Two major objectives of the ERLP are the demonstration of energy recovery and of energy recovery from a beam disrupted by an FEL interaction as supplied by an infrared oscillator system. In this paper we present start-to-end simulations of the ERLP including such an FEL interaction. The beam dynamics in the highbrightness injector, which consists of a DC photocathode Gun and a superconducting booster, have been modelled using the particle tracking code ASTRA. After the booster the particles have been tracked with the code elegant. The 3D code GENESIS 1.3 was used to model the FEL interaction with the electron beam at 35 MeV. A brief summary of impedance and wakefield calculations for the whole machine is also given.