Photocathode driven linac at UCLA for FEL and plasma wakefield acceleration experiments

The UCLA compact 20-MeV/c electron linear accelerators is designed to produce a single electron bunch with a peak current of 200 A, an RMS energy spread of 0.2% or less, and a short 1.2-ps RMS pulse duration. The linac is also designed to minimize emittance growth down the beamline so as to obtain emittances on the order of 8 pi mm-mrad in the experimental region. The linac will feed two beamlines, the first will run straight into the undulator for FEL experiments while the second will be used for diagnostics, longitudinal bunch compression and other electron beam experiments. A description is given of the considerations that went into the design of the accelerating structures and the transport to the experimental areas.<
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