Fermilab NICADD Photoinjector Laboratory

The Fermilab NICADD Photoinjector Laboratory (FNPL) is an 18 MeV electron linac.  It produces a high-intensity, low emittance beam.  The principal components of the facility are a pulsed UV laser, a normal conducting RF gun with a cæsium telluride photo-cathode, a 9-cell superconducting cavity, a magnetic chicane, and a beam transport line.  The accelerator is used for studies in accelerator science, plasma wake-field acceleration, and channelling radiation.

The accelerator’s design is nominally identical to that of the TeSLA Test Facility (TTF) at DESY.  The RF gun for TTF’s second-generation injector was in fact designed, fabricated, and commissioned at the FNPL facility.  The 9-cell superconducting cavity being used at FNPL was provided by DESY.

The construction of the photo-injector was undertaken as a collaboration between Fermilab and

• The Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of California at Los Angeles.
• The Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Rochester.
• The Laboratorio Acceleratori e Superconduttività Applicata of INFN Milano (Italy).
• The TeSLA Test Facility at DESY-Hamburg (Germany).

with the participation of visitors from

• INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (Italy).
• Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany).
• Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire / Université Paris-Sud XI (France).
• The Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY-Zeuthen (Germany).