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Design, construction, and offline calibration of ARPolar prototype for SXFEL facility

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Purpose

The polarization characteristics of photoelectrons are critical for free-electron laser (FEL) experiments. Several FEL facilities have operated an eTOF-alike polarimeter based on the angular distribution of photoelectrons. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the design, construction and offline test of the prototype angular resolved polarimeter (ARPolar-CORE) for the Shanghai Soft X-ray Facility (SXFEL). This paper describes the overall design of this instrument, covering the main chamber, detector assemblies, and electronics.

Methods

To validate the performance of the instrument, the detectors and electronics were tested offline and calibrated. Moreover, based on the measured pulse shape obtained from the offline tests, a comprehensive numerical analysis is presented to evaluate the performance of the instrument.

Results and conclusion

The results show that the fluctuation in the electron charges is less than 0.8% under the SXFEL working conditions, corresponding to a linear polarity of 0.988 ± 0.0175 for linearly and horizontally polarized FEL pulses. The analysis also indicates that a 0.16 eV mean square error is fully feasible for 645 eV FEL pulses.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFE0103100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12125508, 11935020), Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (21XD14 04100), and Shanghai Pilot Program for Basic Research – Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai Branch (JCYJ-SHFY-2021-010).

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  1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Zipeng Liu & Bangjie Deng

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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  3. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, Shaanxi, China

    Bangjie Deng & Qingmin Zhang

  4. Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201210, China

    Haixiao Deng & Bo Liu

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Liu, Z., Deng, B., Zhang, Q. et al. Design, construction, and offline calibration of ARPolar prototype for SXFEL facility. Radiat Detect Technol Methods 6, 214–226 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41605-022-00329-1

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