cryogun

noun

cryogun

noun

Etymology From cryo- + gun.

1

A cryogenically-cooled electron gun

  • For a final charge of 1000k electrons the cryogun produces a coherence length per rms spot size of 0.1 nm/micron for an rms bunch length of 100-200 fs and final spot size of 50 micron.2015, C. Gulliford, A. Bartnik, I. Bazarov, “Multi-objective Optimizations of a Novel Cryo-cooled DC Gun Based Ultra Fast Electron Diffraction Beamline”, in arXiv:

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