Thesis title: Beam dynamics studies for advanced - compact RF photoinjector for PWFA
High-brightness RF photoinjectors are fundamental for generating high peak current and low trans-
verse emittance electron beams. A C-band injector, operating at 5.712 GHz is useful to enhance
the beam quality and so the brightness. The optimization of active and passive machine elements,
such as laser systems, gun solenoid, and RF devices, are fundamental to higher the brightness by
one order of magnitude concerning the state of the art. Start-to-end beam dynamics simulation will
be done to achieve the optimum configuration for the C-band photoinjector. The ASTRA code,
a space charge tracking algorithm, will be used for this study. This study is in the framework of
EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB, and EuPRAXIA projects.