Electron Sources

The Xelera team has been designing and building electron sources for several decades. The process for building an electron source includes:

  • Electromagnetic design

  • Beam dynamics design

  • Vacuum systems design and fabrication

  • Integrated mechanical design

  • RF design and elctronics assembly.

Members of Xelera have built devices for Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell University, and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

We provide custom design solutions for specific applications. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you meet your goals.

Xelera Research LLC, in collaboration with a team at JLab, designed, built, and tested a thermionic electron source (TGun) to drive a magnetized electron cooler for a future electron-ion collider project.

This device was funded through the U.S. Department of Energy SBIR Program.

Electromagnetic Design

Complete electrostatic modeling of the Xelera TGun in Poisson.

Mechanical and Vacuum Design

Nearly all of the mechanical and vacuum systems are designed and built in house.

Beam Dynamics Design and Optimization

6D Particle tracking simulations in 3D fields, including all of the relevant beam dynamics effects, are performed for the complete system. Parallel optimizations are performed on top of these simulations for desired beam qualities such as emittance or magnetization preservation.

RF Components Design and Fabrication

RF components such as this thermionic cathode feed are designed, machined, and tested in house.

Integrated Mechanical Layout

The TGun layout integrated with the existing JLab Gun Test Stand (GTS).