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@inproceedings{gilfellon:linac2022-thpojo10,
author = {A.J. Gilfellon and L.S. Cowie and T.J. Jones and B.L. Militsyn and R. Valizadeh},
title = {{RF Design and Characterisation of the CLARA 10 Hz Gun with Photocathode Load/Lock Upgrade}},
booktitle = {Proc. LINAC'22},
% booktitle = {Proc. 31st International Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC'22)},
pages = {715--717},
eid = {THPOJO10},
language = {english},
keywords = {cathode, gun, simulation, cavity, vacuum},
venue = {Liverpool, UK},
series = {International Linear Accelerator Conference},
number = {31},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {09},
year = {2022},
issn = {2226-0366},
isbn = {978-3-95450-215-8},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOJO10},
url = {https://jacow.org/linac2022/papers/thpojo10.pdf},
abstract = {{The 2.5 cell S-band 10 Hz repetition rate electron gun (Gun-10) for the CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) facility underwent an upgrade during the scheduled shutdown period during the summer of 2019. The existing photocathode/back plate was replaced by a new back plate with interchangeable photocathode socket connected to a load/lock system capable of rapid exchanges of photocathode plugs. Here we outline motivation and RF design of the back plate and also detail the low power RF testing and characterisation of the upgraded gun in terms of the unloaded quality factor, the RF power coupling match, the percent field flatness and the operating frequency of the cavity, calculated from the frequency measured in the laboratory. Finally, via simulations using CST MWS and ASTRA, we produce a dependence of expected beam momentum vs forward power that we predict the gun will deliver once it goes back online.}},
}