Abstract
Abstract
Because an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) decelerates and dumps the beam after at most a few passes, beam degradation in the interaction region that is orders of magnitude larger than in a storage ring is tolerable in such a device. As a consequence, some new types of Nuclear Physics experiments can be carried out. In 2016, an experiment (the DarkLight experiment) was installed in the Jefferson Lab FEL Driver ERL to test out this idea. The ERL had previously been used for FEL applications where high peak current and a large growth in energy spread was present. For the internal target, the machine setup required very small energy spread, and had to deal with large transverse emittance growth in the target. Additionally, the addition of a strong solenoid in the transport complicated the details of energy recovery. This presentation will describe how these new machine physics challenges were addressed.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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