Commissioning of the Low Energy Electron Gun Test Stand at the University of Chicago

2023/07/05 by S.V. Kladov, Kladov, S., Mary Kay Bossard +13
Engineering · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates #solar cell performance optimization

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.02354

openalex publication_date 2023/07/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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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