High-repetition-rate sources of bright electron bunches have a wide range of applications. They can directly be employed as probes in electron-scattering setups, or serve as a backbone for the generation of radiation over a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper describes the development of a compact sub-Mega-electronvolt (sub-MeV) electron-source setup capable of operating at MHz repetition rates and forming sub-picosecond electron bunches with transverse emittance below 20~nm. The setup relies on a conduction-cooled superconducting single-cell resonator with its geometry altered to enhance the field at the surface of the emitter. The system is designed to accommodate cooling using a model a 2~W at 4.2 K pulse tube cryogen-free cryocooler. Although we focus on the case of a photoemitted electron bunch, the scheme could be adapted to other emission mechanisms.
@article{arxiv.2012.13388,
title = {A Field-Enhanced Conduction-Cooled Superconducting Cavity for High-Repetition-Rate Ultrafast Electron Bunch Generation},
author = {Osama Mohsen and Daniel Mihalcea and Nathan Tom and Noah Adams and Ram Dhuley and Michael I Geelhoed and Aaron McKeown and Venumadhav Korampally and Philippe Piot and Iman Salehinia and Jayakar C. Thangaraj and Tianzhe Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13388},
year = {2021}
}