Electron Sources
The Xelera team has been designing and building electron sources for several decades. The process for building an electron source includes:
Members of Xelera have built devices for Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell University, and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
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Xelera Research LLC, in collaboration with a team at JLab, designed, built, and tested a thermionic electron source (TGun) to drive a magnetized electron source for a future electron-ion collider project.
This device was funded through the U.S. Department of Energy SBIR Program.
Electromagnetic Design
Complete electrostatic modeling of the Xelera TGun in Poisson.
Mechanical and Vacuum Design
Nearly all of the mechanical and vacuum systems are designed and built in house.
6D Particle tracking simulations in 3D fields, including all of the relevant beam dynamics effects, are performed for the complete system. Parallel optimizations are performed on top of these simulations for desired beam qualities such as emittance or magnetization preservation.
Beam Dynamics Design and Optimization
RF Components Design and Fabrication
RF components such as this thermionic cathode feed are designed, machined, and tested in house.
Integrated Mechanical Layout
The TGun layout integrated with the existing JLab Gun Test Stand (GTS).