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Measurement of low-energy and low-charge ultrashort bunches using an S-band RF deflector

  • Sunjeong Park
  • , Hyun Woo Kim
  • , Mi Hye Kim
  • , Young Chan Kim
  • , In Hyung Baek
  • , Kyu Ha Jang
  • , Eun San Kim
  • , Hongjoo Kim
  • , Nikolay A. Vinokurov
  • , Young Uk Jeong
  • , Seong Hee Park
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
  • Korea University
  • University of Science and Technology UST
  • RAS - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics

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Abstract

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED) system, using an electron bunch of the duration with less than 100 fs and of the energy with 3 MeV, has been developed as a tool probing the ultrafast dynamics in pump–probe experiments. To keep the temporal and transverse characteristics of the electron bunch for the time-resolved electron diffraction, the bunch charge is limited to be the pico-Coulomb or less. S-band transverse deflecting cavity working on TM 120 mode is designed, fabricated, and installed in the UED system to measure directly the fs-scaled pulse duration of low-energy and low-charge electron bunches. We describe the design and the expected performance of a single-cell RF deflector. For the electron beam of 3 MeV in energy and 1.88 pC in charge, we could measure the bunch duration of 69 fs and the timing jitter of 62 fs, both in rms.

Keywords

  • Electron duration measurement
  • RF deflector
  • Ultrafast electron diffraction system
  • Ultrashort bunch measurement

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