Construction of the alpha-X photo-injector cavity

M.J. de Loos , T. Garvey (1) , D. Jaroszynski , V. Pavlov , J. Rodier (1) , Y. Saveliev , S.B. van Der Geer , S.M. Wiggins

1 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire

We will describe the construction and low power testing of an RF cavity to be used as a photo-injector for the ALPHA-X project within the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde (UK). The gun is a two and a half cell S-band cavity, employing a metallic photocathode. RF power is coupled to the gun via a co-axial power coupler. The specification of the gun and the low power measurements made to achieve the correct mode frequency and field flatness will be presented.

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

M.J. de Loos, T. Garvey, D. Jaroszynski, V. Pavlov, J. Rodier, et al.. Construction of the alpha-X photo-injector cavity. Tenth European Particle Accelerator Conference "EPAC'06", Jun 2006, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. pp.1277-1279. ⟨in2p3-00118805⟩