Design of Energy Recovery Linac for a Source of High-Flux Gamma-ray by Laser Compton Scattering

Abstract

We investigate the generations of a high-flux γ-ray beams by laser Compton scattering. We performed the design of an energy recovery linac that produces a γ-ray beam with the flux of ∼ 1013 photons/s. It is important to examine the effects on beam performances of the ERL in detail. Thus, we examined the effects of emittance growths on higher order modes in the superconducting linac and coherent synchrotron radiation in the designed lattice of the energy recovey linac. They were checked by performing the start-to-end simulation of multi-beam particle trackings in the designed 355 MeV ERL. It was shown that the energy recovery linacs by laser Compton scattering may provide monochromatic high-flux gamma-ray beams. It is shown through our design studies that goals of γ-ray beam parameters in the ERL facility are achievable. Such an energy-tunable γ-ray beams that are generated by laser Compton scattering may be applied to nuclear resonance fluorescence(NRF) measurements for the non-destructive detection of radioactive nuclear materials. The investigations show that our design studies provide a good optimized ERL parameters in terms of beam dynamics.