Limitations on electron beam density of unipotential electron guns at low voltages

Low Emittance Thermionic Electron Guns*

Limitations of Electron Beam Conditioning for Free-Electron Lasers

Several ideas have been proposed to ‘condition’ an electron beam prior to the undulator of a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) by increasing each particle’s energy in proportion to the square of its transverse betatron amplitude. This conditioning enhances FEL gain by reducing the axial velocity spread within the electron bunch. We demonstrate that for symplectic beamlines, and independent of the metho...

The effect of high-energy electron beam on drawn and undrawn high density polyethylene fibers

HDPE monofilaments were obtained using different extruders and drawn by post-extruder equipments. After solidification, drawn and undrawn monofilaments (draw ratio 7:1) were irradiated with 10 MeV electron beams in air at room temperature at 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125 kGy dose ranges to induce a network structure. HDPE crosslinking was studied on the basis of gel content measurements. The fibers w...

Modelling and simulation of beam formation in electron guns

This paper describes a new PC version of the software package GUN-EBT for computer simulation of beam formation in rotationally symmetric electron guns with thermionic cathodes. It is based on a self-consistent physical model which takes into account the beam space charge and the initial velocities effects. The theoretical framework used for both the formulation of the model and for the interpr...

Femtosecond Electron Guns for Ultrafast Electron Diffraction*

The photocathode radio-frequency (RF) gun is a powerful electron source to generate a high-brightness femtosecond electron beam with energies of 1~3 MeV. The RF gun based relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a promising new technique that has the potential to probe directly structural changes at the atomic scale with sub-100 fs temporal resolution. In this paper, we analyze the ...