Investigation of the radiation properties of different undulator types for synchrotron light facility design

Accelerators are used in many areas of basic sciences. One of the applications in which accelerators are used for this purpose is synchrotron radiation sources. Synchrotron radiation sources are important research facilities for scientific and technical researches. The radiation parameters are strongly dependent on accelerator and undulator parameters. In Turkish Synchrotron Radiation Source Project named TURKAY which is the part of the TAC (Turkish Accelerator Center) project, the properties of radiation were investigated based on normal conducting undulators with electron beam parameters of designed accelerator. In this study, the radiation properties were investigated by performing simulation studies for different types of undulators using the electron beam parameters of the same machine. From the simulation results, it is shown that 5 times higher brilliance value can be obtained by using super conducting undulators and helical super conducting undulators. The increase in achievable brightness value will make the facility more interesting for synchrotron radiation users.