CONCEPTION OF PHOTOINJECTORS FOR THE CTF3 EXPERIMENT

Abstract

In the framework of the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) under development at CERN, LAL-Orsay is responsible for the construction of two photo-injectors for two different linacs. One, dedicated for the so called “drive beam linac” must fulfil very demanding specifications. The RF gun has to provide a high quality beam composed of more than 2,000 bunches containing 2.33 nC of charge each in one RF pulse. The model adopted is inspired from the CERN 3 GHz 2-1/2 cell type IV RF gun. We will summarize all the studies performed on the RF design and on the beam dynamics. The vacuum issue has been also carefully investigated. The constraints on the second photo-injector are less severe since it must be operated with one or 64 bunches of 0.5 nC each for the so called “probe beam linac”. It will also be a 2.5 cell gun at 3 GHz but its design will be substantially different with respect to the former. This last project has only recently begun and therefore we will show only the preliminary results of the RF and of the beam dynamics simulations.