CompactLight
Published December 4, 2020 | Version v1
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Scaling of Beam Collective Eects with Bunch Charge in the CompactLight Free-Electron Laser

Creators

  • 1. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
  • 2. CERN
  • 3. Helsinki University, Helsinki Institute of Physics
  • 4. Ankara University
  • 5. INFN-LNF
  • 6. Lancaster University
  • 7. ASTeC and Cockcroft Institute
  • 8. Uppsala University
  • 9. Sapienza University of Rome
  • 10. ENEA
  • 11. AsTeC and Cockroft Institute

Description

The CompactLight European consortium is designing a state-of-the-art X-ray free-electron laser driven by radiofrequency X-band technology. Rooted in experimental data on photo-injector performance in the recent literature, this study estimates analytically and numerically the performance of the CompactLight delivery system for bunch charges in the range 75–300 pC. Space-charge forces in the injector, linac transverse wakefield, and coherent synchrotron radiation in bunch compressors are all taken into account. The study confirms efficient lasing in the soft X-rays regime with pulse energies up to hundreds of microjoules at repetition rates as high as 1 kHz.

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