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A superconducting Compact Energy Recovery Linac (cERL) for electrons was constructed in 2013 at KEK to demonstrate energy recovery concept with low emittance, high-current CW beams of more than 10 mA for future multi-GeV ERL. Recently this cERL was operated not only to demonstrate energy recovery linac high current beam operation but also to promote and conduct a variety of industrial applications such as FEL, THz operation and Rare Isotope Production and irradiation for some materials. In this talk, I will present the status of the studies to realize the stable high-current low emittance CW beam and some applications with this beam., Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF2021, East Lansing, MI, USA

In 2015, the water leakage happened at the cooling pipe of the in-vacuum septum magnet installed into the injection point. Because the maintenance of the leakage needed the total replacement of the magnet, the water circulation was stopped permanently, and accordingly, the light absorber was installed upstream in the storage ring to prevent the synchrotron light of the bending magnet from coming to the septum wall. This treatment temporally worked well, but the beam injection efficiency was decreased to about 30% due to the physical aperture narrowed by the absorber. With the desired replacement of septum magnet to maintainable out-vacuum type, the injection section upgrading was simultaneously planned to recover and improve the injection efficiency. In this upgrade, the injection beam is closed to the stored beam more than before by adapting the thinner septum structure as a way to improve the injection efficiency. And some new ideas are introduced in the part of monitor and beam duct, for example, realtime beam monitor, thinner Inconel duct. The detailed design of the upgraded injection section and technical points will be reviewed in this conference., Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Temperature measurements have been performed in the PF-ring tunnel in order to understand the infrastructure performance and the temperature stability towards the PF upgrade project, where better beam stability will be required. Based on the temperature measurements, possible improvements of the PF-ring infrastructure such as an air-conditioning system have been studied to enhance the temperature stability in the PF-ring tunnel. In this paper, we present results of the temperature measurements in the PF-ring tunnel and a proposal of the PF-ring infrastructure improvements for the temperature stabilization., Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil

The compact Energy Recovery Linac (cERL) has been in operation at KEK since 2013 to demonstrate ERL performance and develop ERL technology. Recently KEK has launched an infrared FEL project with a competitive funding. The purpose of this project is to build a mid-infrared FEL at the cERL, and to use that FEL as a light source for construction of the processing database required for industrial lasers. The FEL system is composed of two 3-m undulators and a matching section between them, and generates light with a maximum pulse energy of 0.1 micro-J at the wavelength of 20 microns with an 81.25 MHz repetition rate. The FEL is also expected to become a proof-of-concept machine for ERL base FELs for future EUV lithography., Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil

A compact energy-recovery linac (cERL) have been operating since 2013 at KEK to develop critical components for ERL facility. Details of design, construction and the result of initial commissioning are already reported*. This paper will describe the details of further improvements and researches to achieve higher averaged beam current of 1 mA with continuous-wave (CW) beam pattern. At first, to keep the small beam emittance produced by 500 kV DC-photocathode gun, tuning of low-energy beam transport is essential. Also, we found some components degrades the beam quality, i.e., a non-metallic mirror which disturbed the beam orbit. Other important aspects are the measurement and mitigation of the beam losses. Combination of beam collimator and tuning of the beam optics can improve the beam halo enough to operate with 1 mA stably. The cERL has been operated with beam energy at 20 MeV or 17.5 MeV and with beam rep-rate of 1300 MHz or 162.5 MHz depending on the purpose of experiments. In each operation, the efficiency of the energy recovery was confirmed to be better than 99.9 %., 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference

The new beam line for the industrial applications is constructed at the cERL (compact Energy Recovery LINAC) in KEK. In these applications, only north straight sections of cERL consisting of injector and main LINAC will be used. The test for the radio isotope production and electron beam irradiation for the materials are firstly planned with very small beam current without energy recovery., Proceedings of the 10th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia

The Compact Energy Recovery Linac (cERL) at KEK is a test accelerator in order to develop key components to realize remarkable ERL performance as a future light source. After the beam commissioning in December 2013, the legal current limit has been increased step-by-step like 1 uA, 10 uA, and 100 uA. Survey for the source of beam losses has been conducted in each step, and the study on beam dynamics and tuning has also been carried out. As a next step, 1 mA operation is scheduled in February 2016. In parallel to the increase in beam current, a laser Compton scattering (LCS) system which can provide high-flux X-ray to a beamline has been successfully commissioned. We report recent progress in various kinds of beam tuning: improvement of electron gun performance, high bunch charge operation, mitigation of beam losses, LCS optics tuning and bunch compression for THz radiation., The 7th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC2016)

The beam transport line (BT) for the Photon Factory Advanced Ring (PF-AR), which is a 6.5-GeV light source of KEK, has been recently renewed. The new BT dedicated to PF-AR allows not only simultaneous operation with the SuperKEKB storage ring, which has a much shorter Touschek lifetime, but also the top-up operation via 6.5-GeV full-energy injection. The construction, including tunnel excavation, was completed by the end of 2016, and the commissioning was performed for one month from February 2017. Standard beam monitors, such as stripline beam position monitors, screen monitors, beam loss monitors, and fast current transformers are installed in the new BT and contribute greatly to accomplishing the commissioning in a short period of time. This paper discusses details of these monitors and some commissioning results obtained by using them., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Beam Instrumentation Conf., IBIC2017, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

The Compact Energy Recovery Linac (cERL) project is ongoing at KEK in order to demonstrate excellent ERL performance as a future light source. The cERL injector was already constructed with its diagnostic beamline and successfully commissioned from April to June in 2013. In the next step, the cERL recirculation loop with a main superconducting linac and merger and dump sections has been constructed and its commissioning is scheduled to start in December 2013. Significant progress is expected by the IPAC14 conference date. In this presentation, we will describe the present status of the cERL including future developments., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

Superconducting(SC)-linac-based light sources, which can produce ultra-brilliant photon beams in CW operation, are attracting worldwide attention. In KEK, we have been conducting R&D; efforts towards the energy-recovery-linac(ERL)-based light source* since 2006. To demonstrate the key technologies for the ERL, we constructed the Compact ERL (cERL)** from 2009 to 2013. In the cERL, high-brightness CW electron beams are produced using a 500-kV photocathode DC gun. The beams are accelerated using SC cavities, transported through a recirculation loop, decelerated in the SC cavities, and dumped. In the February of 2014, we succeeded in accelerating and recirculating the CW beams of 4.5 micro-amperes in the cERL; the beams were successfully transported from the gun to the beam dump under energy recovery operation in the main linac. Then, precise tuning of beam optics and diagnostics of beam properties are under way. We report our experience on the beam commissioning, as well as the results of initial measurements of beam properties.

The Compact Energy Recovery Linac (cERL) is a superconducting test accelerator aimed at establishing technologies for the ERL-based future light source. After its construction during 2009 to 2013, the first CW beams of 20 MeV were successfully transported through the recirculation loop in February 2014*. Then, initial tuning of beams and evaluations of beam properties were carried out. From September to December in 2014, we are constructing a Laser Compton Scattering (LCS) source** which aims at demonstrating technology for the future high-flux quasi-monochromatic gamma-ray source. In the next run of the cERL, which begins at the end of January 2015, we plan such works as an increase in the beam current (from 10 uA to 100 uA), commissioning of the LCS source, and sustained tuning of beams for lower emittance. We will report up-to-date results of these developments., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA

Update of the first-generation undulators installed in 1980s is pushed forward at PF-Ring, a 2.5-GeV SR source of KEK, taking advantage of the expanded straight sections reconstructed in 2005. New undulators have been designed as elliptically polarizing undulators each has 6 magnetic arrays to obtain various polarization states, not only circular polarization but also linear (horizontal and vertical) polarization. Three undulators will be installed in FY2013 and FY2014 for BL02, BL13 and BL28. For BL02, the longest straight section of about 9 m, the new undulator will be installed in tandem with the existing planar undulator, in order to cover the wide photon energy range from 15 eV to 2 keV. At PF-AR, a 6.5-GeV SR source, a new direct beam transport (BT) line from the injector LINAC is under construction. Super KEKB which shares the injector LINAC with PF-Ring and PF-AR will be commissioned at the end of FY2014. The full-energy continuous injection of PF-AR will be available as a simultaneous injection with the 7-GeV HER, the 4-GeV LER and PF-Ring not so later than the commissioning of Super KEKB., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

Two synchrotron radiation sources of KEK, the PF-ring and the PF-AR, continue their user operation with various improvements. Scrap and build of the first generation undulators of 1980s at the PF-ring is pushed forward year by year. Five new elliptically polarized undulators have been installed in these five years, and we have also installed four very narrow-gap short-period undulators generating high brilliant X-ray. The new beam transport line that enables the 6.5-GeV full energy injection for PF-AR will be completed by the end of 2016 in order to make the top-up operation of the two SR sources compatible with the continuous injection for two main rings of the Super-KEKB. We have proposed a project of further upgrade of the 2.5-GeV PF-ring to improve its horizontal emittance as 8 nm rad using combined bending magnets at the arc sections. And we are also moving ahead on proposal of constructing a new KEK light source of an extremely low emittance as 0.3 nm rad. The progress and detail of our future project will be described in this paper., Proceedings of the 7th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2016, Busan, Korea

Future synchrotron light source using a 5-GeV-class energy recovery linac (ERL) is under proposal by our Japanese collaboration team, and we are conducting active R efforts for that. We are developing super-brilliant DC photocathode guns, two types of cryomodules for both injector and main superconducting linacs, 1.3 GHz high CW-power rf sources, and other important components. We are also constructing a compact ERL for demonstrating the recirculation of low-emittance, high-current beams using those key components. We present our recent progress in this project., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

KEK manages two synchrotron radiation sources, Photon Factory storage ring (PF-ring) of 2.5 GeV and Photon Factory advanced ring (PF-AR) of 6.5 GeV. These rings share an injector linac with the two main rings of KEK B-factory, 8-GeV HER and 3.5-GeV LER. Recently, the linac has succeeded in a pulse by pulse multi-energy acceleration. A top-up operation of PF-ring has been realized as the simultaneous continuous injection to the 3 rings, PF-ring, HER and LER. Development of new injection scheme using a pulsed sextupole magnet continues aiming at practical use in the top-up operation. A rapid-polarization-switching device consisting of tandem two APPLE-II type undulators has been developed at PF-ring. The first undulator was installed in 2008, and the second one will be installed in 2010 summer. PF-AR, operated in a single-bunch mode at all times, has been suffered from sudden lifetime drop phenomena attributed to dust trapping for many years. Using the movable electrodes installed for experiment, we confirmed that the discharge created by the electrode was followed by the dust trapping, and succeeded in a visual observation of luminous dust streaking in front of CCD cameras., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan