The PERLE project in Irene Joliot Curie Laboratory (IJCLab, Orsay, France) is a test facility for a future larger scale Energy Recovery Linear accelerator to be deployed as part of Hadron-electron Colliders, an upgrade of the LHC allowing electron hadron collisions. PERLE will be a low energy test facility which will be used to develop the crucial advances in accelerator technology required to achieve the challenging beam parameters, with a dedicated low energy nuclear and particle physics programme to follow.
The electron source or injector which is based on photoemission of electron with following acceleration in an electric field, longitudinal compression and further acceleration and injection into the ERL is one such critical technology. In order to provide high luminosity in the collisions the injector should deliver very short and bright electron bunches which dynamics is very complicated. This project focusses on investigation and optimisation of dynamics of high brightness electron bunches for injection into ERL. The results of the project will be used for design of PERLE and will be tested at the facility in Orsay.
Work on the project will be at Daresbury Laboratory (DL, UK) and IJCLab and will involve computer simulation of beam dynamics in the designed PERLE injector and experimental investigation of beam parameters. The project will entail participation in technical design, start up and commissioning of PERLE. The intention is to identify the optimum parameters of the injector for delivery high brightness electron beams to the ERL ring.
The injector design for PERLE will have many common features with that which would be required to drive a soft X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FEL) at high repetition rate. Such a capability is envisaged as part of the UK-XFEL facility proposal, currently under consideration by UKRI, therefore this project develops underpinning technology required for UK-XFEL.
In the first year of the project, you will familiarise yourself with the current status of low energy beam physics and the simulation of the beam dynamics in the PERLE injector. You will also be expected to contribute to the technical design of the injector. In subsequent years, injector commissioning and beam characterisation will be taking out. In the final period there may be an opportunity to test beam injection into the PERLE ring.
A background in accelerator science will be beneficial, but is not essential. Comprehensive postgraduate training programme will be part of this project. In particular, you will benefit from the established training and support programme offered by the Cockcroft Institute.
You will spend your first and final year in the UK and be given the opportunity to conduct your research at Orsay in France during years 2 and 3. Subject to the usual funding approval, the studentship will cover UK tuition fees and a maintenance allowance will be paid for up to a full 4 years.
For any enquiries please contact Prof Max Klein: [Email Address Removed]
To apply for this opportunity, please visit: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply/ and click on the 'Apply online' button. Please quote studentship reference PPPR012 - Space charge dominated low energy beam dynamics in high current Energy Recovery Linacs.
Continue with Facebook
