Beam-dynamics Simulations for Channeling Radiation Electron Source

The intensity and the brilliance of the compact X-ray sources based on channeling radiation are strongly dependant on the electron beam quality. It was recently proposed to combine a field-emission electron source with channeling radiation through a diamond crystal to produce high-spectral-brilliance X-rays. There are two experiments in preparation at Fermilab to prove this technique. The beam energy in the two cases are 5-MeV and 40-MeV respectively. The field-emitted beams have emittance in the nanometer range when the microbunch is 25 ps long and the charge is about 2.5fC. RF guns operating at 1.3 GHz can produce trains of at least 2 × 105 microbunches. In this contribution we present beam-dymamics simulations of a the field-emission and subsequent accelerator up to the channeling-radiation target.