High-intensity polarized electron gun featuring distributed Bragg reflector GaAs photocathode
- 17 June 2024
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 124 (25)
Abstract
The polarized electron source is a critical component in accelerator facilities such as the electron–ion collider, which requires a polarized electron gun with higher voltage and higher bunch charge than existing sources. One challenge we faced was the surface charge limit of the distributed Bragg reflector GaAs/GaAsP superlattice (DBR-SL-GaAs) photocathode. We suppressed this effect by optimizing the surface doping and heat cleaning procedures. We achieved up to 11.6 nC bunch charge of polarized electron beam. In this report, we discuss the performance of tests of a DBR-SL-GaAs photocathode in the high voltage direct current gun. Possible reasons for the observed peak quantum efficiency wavelength shift are analyzed, and we addressed it by using a wavelength tunable laser. In addition, the impact of the DBR layer and laser on the lifetime is investigated in this paper. The optimal DBR-SL-GaAs operating zone has been proposed, which gave us a long lifetime and high polarization at 30 μA operation. The success of this polarized gun will be key to the future of the nuclear sciences.Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0012704)
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