Within the CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) project, feasibility studies of a photoinjector option for the drive beam as an alternative to its baseline design using a thermionic electron gun (Geschonke et al. [1] ) are on-going. This R&D program covers both the laser and the photocathode side. Cesium antimonide cathodes were produced at CERN by co-deposition onto copper substrates and characterized by photoemission and by XPS (X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy) analysis. A systematic study on newly produced and used photocathodes was conducted in order to correlate the surface composition to the photoemissive properties.
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Martini et al. (2015) studied this question.