LINAC2022 - List of Authors (Cowie, L.S.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPOJO09	Status of CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory	711
	D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, A.D. Brynes, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, H.M. Castañeda Cortés, J.A. Clarke, L.S. Cowie, K.D. Dumbell, D.J. Dunning, A.J. Gilfellon, A.R. Goulden, J. Henderson, S. Hitchen, F. Jackson, C.R. Jenkins, M.A. Johnson, J.K. Jones, N.Y. Joshi, M.P. King, S.L. Mathisen, J.W. McKenzie, R. Mclean, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, K.T. Morrow, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, T.C.Q. Noakes, W.A. Okell, H.L. Owen, T.H. Pacey, A.E. Pollard, M.D. Roper, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, E.W. Snedden, N. Thompson, C. Tollervey, R. Valizadeh, D.A. Walsh, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom A.R. Bainbridge, A.D. Brynes, J.A. Clarke, L.S. Cowie, K.D. Dumbell, D.J. Dunning, C.R. Jenkins, K.J. Middleman, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, H.L. Owen, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, N. Thompson, R. Valizadeh, A.J. Vick, A.E. Wheelhouse Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom A.D. Brynes Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy R.J. Cash, R.F. Clarke, M. Colling, G. Cox, B.D. Fell, S.A. Griffiths, M.D. Hancock, T. Hartnett, J.P. Hindley, C. Hodgkinson, G. Marshall, A. Oates, A.J. Vick, J.T.G. Wilson STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom J. Henderson Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
	CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) is a test facility for Free Electron Laser (FEL) research and other applications at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory. The Front End of CLARA has been used for user exploitation programme from 2018. The second exploitation period in 2021-22 provided a range of beam parameters to 8 user experiments. We report on the status, further machine development, and future plans for CLARA including Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE) beamline which will provide 250 MeV/c high brightness beam for novel experiments.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOJO09
About •	Received ※ 19 August 2022 — Revised ※ 28 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 05 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022
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THPOJO10	RF Design and Characterisation of the CLARA 10 Hz Gun with Photocathode Load/Lock Upgrade	715
	A.J. Gilfellon, L.S. Cowie, T.J. Jones, B.L. Militsyn, R. Valizadeh STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	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.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOJO10
About •	Received ※ 25 August 2022 — Revised ※ 31 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 31 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 September 2022
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THPORI15	Operation of the CLARA Linear Accelerator with 2.5 Cell 10 Hz Photocathode Gun with Interchangeable Photocathodes	854
	B.L. Militsyn, D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, L.S. Cowie, A.J. Gilfellon, F. Jackson, N.Y. Joshi, K.J. Middleman, K.T. Morrow, T.C.Q. Noakes, M.D. Roper, R. Valizadeh, D.A. Walsh STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom R.J. Cash, B.D. Fell, T.J. Jones, A.J. Vick STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	During commissioning and operation run in 2021-2022 the photoinjector of the CLARA-VELA facility a 2.5 cell cavity S-band photocathode gun originally developed for the APEX experiment was used. The copper back wall of the cavity also served as the gun photocathode. In order to reduce significant time required for replacement and/or reactivation of the photocathode and improve the flexibility of the injector the gun has been upgraded for operation with DESY/INFN style interchangeable photocathodes. This upgrade included a new design of the cavity back wall to accommodate the photocathode socket and equipping the gun with a load-lock system. Modification of the gun also required replacement of the bucking coil, which zeros field in the photocathode emission plane. After the upgrade, the gun was commissioned and then operated with a hybrid Cu/Mo photocathode during the last two years. During winter-spring 2022 experimental run the gun steadily operated with a cathode field of 60 MV/m, limited by the RF power available and with an off-centre diamond turned photocathode which delivered stable bunches with a charge of 100 pC.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPORI15
About •	Received ※ 24 August 2022 — Revised ※ 08 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 October 2022
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Status of CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory

711

D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, A.D. Brynes, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, H.M. Castañeda Cortés, J.A. Clarke, L.S. Cowie, K.D. Dumbell, D.J. Dunning, A.J. Gilfellon, A.R. Goulden, J. Henderson, S. Hitchen, F. Jackson, C.R. Jenkins, M.A. Johnson, J.K. Jones, N.Y. Joshi, M.P. King, S.L. Mathisen, J.W. McKenzie, R. Mclean, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, K.T. Morrow, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, T.C.Q. Noakes, W.A. Okell, H.L. Owen, T.H. Pacey, A.E. Pollard, M.D. Roper, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, E.W. Snedden, N. Thompson, C. Tollervey, R. Valizadeh, D.A. Walsh, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
A.R. Bainbridge, A.D. Brynes, J.A. Clarke, L.S. Cowie, K.D. Dumbell, D.J. Dunning, C.R. Jenkins, K.J. Middleman, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, H.L. Owen, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, N. Thompson, R. Valizadeh, A.J. Vick, A.E. Wheelhouse
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
A.D. Brynes
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
R.J. Cash, R.F. Clarke, M. Colling, G. Cox, B.D. Fell, S.A. Griffiths, M.D. Hancock, T. Hartnett, J.P. Hindley, C. Hodgkinson, G. Marshall, A. Oates, A.J. Vick, J.T.G. Wilson
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
J. Henderson
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) is a test facility for Free Electron Laser (FEL) research and other applications at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory. The Front End of CLARA has been used for user exploitation programme from 2018. The second exploitation period in 2021-22 provided a range of beam parameters to 8 user experiments. We report on the status, further machine development, and future plans for CLARA including Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE) beamline which will provide 250 MeV/c high brightness beam for novel experiments.

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Received ※ 19 August 2022 — Revised ※ 28 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 05 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022

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THPOJO10

RF Design and Characterisation of the CLARA 10 Hz Gun with Photocathode Load/Lock Upgrade

715

A.J. Gilfellon, L.S. Cowie, T.J. Jones, B.L. Militsyn, R. Valizadeh
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOJO10

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Received ※ 25 August 2022 — Revised ※ 31 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 31 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 September 2022

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THPORI15

Operation of the CLARA Linear Accelerator with 2.5 Cell 10 Hz Photocathode Gun with Interchangeable Photocathodes

854

B.L. Militsyn, D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, L.S. Cowie, A.J. Gilfellon, F. Jackson, N.Y. Joshi, K.J. Middleman, K.T. Morrow, T.C.Q. Noakes, M.D. Roper, R. Valizadeh, D.A. Walsh
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
R.J. Cash, B.D. Fell, T.J. Jones, A.J. Vick
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

During commissioning and operation run in 2021-2022 the photoinjector of the CLARA-VELA facility a 2.5 cell cavity S-band photocathode gun originally developed for the APEX experiment was used. The copper back wall of the cavity also served as the gun photocathode. In order to reduce significant time required for replacement and/or reactivation of the photocathode and improve the flexibility of the injector the gun has been upgraded for operation with DESY/INFN style interchangeable photocathodes. This upgrade included a new design of the cavity back wall to accommodate the photocathode socket and equipping the gun with a load-lock system. Modification of the gun also required replacement of the bucking coil, which zeros field in the photocathode emission plane. After the upgrade, the gun was commissioned and then operated with a hybrid Cu/Mo photocathode during the last two years. During winter-spring 2022 experimental run the gun steadily operated with a cathode field of 60 MV/m, limited by the RF power available and with an off-centre diamond turned photocathode which delivered stable bunches with a charge of 100 pC.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPORI15

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Received ※ 24 August 2022 — Revised ※ 08 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 October 2022

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