Commissioning of the Low Energy Electron Gun Test Stand at the University of Chicago
S. Kladov (1), M. Bossard (1), J. Brandt (1), Y-K. Kim (1), N., Banerjee (2), G. Stancari (2), B. Cathey (2), S. Nagaitsev (3) ((1), University of Chicago, (2) Fermilab, (3) Jefferson Lab)
TL;DR
This paper details the commissioning and validation of a new low energy electron gun test stand at the University of Chicago, designed to evaluate thermionic electron sources for use in advanced accelerator experiments.
Contribution
It introduces a novel test stand for thermionic electron sources and demonstrates its effectiveness in validating beam parameters for accelerator applications.
Findings
Successful commissioning of the test stand
Validation of the hollow beam source performance
Accurate measurement of beam characteristics
Abstract
We built a test stand for evaluating the performance of the thermionic electron sources for the electron lens project at the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) in Fermilab. The lens will be used to study nonlinear dynamics and electron cooling of 2.5 MeV protons with strong space charge. The test stand will validate the characteristics of the thermionic sources and the main parameters of the generated beams. In this paper we present the results of the commissioning of the UChicago test stand and validation of the hollow beam source.
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