Beam tail effect of performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun

Abstract

Beam tail effect of multi-bunches will influence the electron beam performances in high intensity thermionic RF gun. Beam dynamic calculations that illustrate the working states of single and multi-pulse fed-in of performance-enhanced EC-ITC (External Cathode Independent Tunable Cavity) RF gun for FEL (Free Electron Laser) injector are performed to estimate extracted bunch properties. By using both Parmela and homemade MATLAB codes, the effects of single beam tail as well as interactions of multi-pulses are analyzed, where ring-based electron algorithm is adopted to calculated RF fields and space charge field. Furthermore, the procedure of unexpected deviated-energy particles mixed with effective bunch head is described by MATLAB code as well. As a result, performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun is proved to have the capability to extract continual stable bunches which are suitable for high requirement THz-FEL.