Pancakes, waterbags and cold atoms: New recipes for high-brightness electron beams

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Abstract

Ideal "waterbag" electron bunches - uniformly filled, hard-edged ellipsoids of charge - can be realized in practice by photoemission with properly shaped fs laser pulses [1]. The linear self-fields of such objects enable thermal-emittance-limited beams and bunch compression to the kA level. The thermal emittance may be lowered to below 0.1 micron by extracting the electrons from an ultra-cold plasma, created by photo-ionization of a cloud of laser-cooled atoms. We will present GPT simulations of the application of waterbags and cold atoms in realistic settings, based on established technology. The status of experiments will be reported.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPorceedings of the 27th Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL 2005), 24 August 2005, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
Place of PublicationPalo Alto, USA
PagesWEOB003-
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Eventconference; Free Electron Laser Conference FEL 2005; 2005-08-24; 2005-08-24 -
Duration: 24 Aug 200524 Aug 2005

Conference

Conferenceconference; Free Electron Laser Conference FEL 2005; 2005-08-24; 2005-08-24
Period24/08/0524/08/05
OtherFree Electron Laser Conference FEL 2005

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