Multipacting saturation in parallel plate and micro-pulse electron gun

Ultrashort-pulse relativistic electron gun/accelerator

Laser driven plasma waves have up to now been considered exclusively as second stage accelerators. Conventional finacs are used in this case as the first stage of acceleration to inject MeV electrons into the plasma. This paper shows it to be advantageous to instead use laser wake fields in the first stage for greater simplicity and better emittance. The concept presented makes this possible wi...

Hybrid dc–ac electron gun for fs-electron pulse generation

We present a new concept of an electron gun for generating subrelativistic few-femtosecond (fs) electron pulses. The basic idea is to utilize a dc acceleration stage combined with an RF cavity, the ac field of which generates an electron energy chirp for bunching at the target. To reduce space charge (SC) broadening the number of electrons in the bunch is reduced and the gun is operated at a me...

Photoelectrons and Multipacting in the LHC: Electron Cloud Buildup

A simple quasi-analytic model is developed for the dynamics of electron cloud generated by synchrotron radiation of the beam in the LHC beam pipe. The model allows to obtain a multipacting condition for the LHC parameters, takes into account the space charge effect and predicts an equilibrium density of the electrons. Based on this model, we find the electron lifetime and estimate the energy de...

Electron Gun Technology

Electron Pulse Broadening Due to Space Charge Effects in a Photoelectron Gun for Electron Diffraction and Streak Camera Systems

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Electrical & Computer Engineering at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Qian, Bao-Liang and Elsayed-Ali, Hani E., "Elec...