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TUPLS062
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27-Jun-06 16:00 - 18:00 TUPLS — Poster Session
Cooling Rates at Ultra-low Energy Storage Rings
Electrostatic low-energy storage rings have
C.P. Welsch, C.P. Welsch (CERN) A.V. Smirnov (JINR)
proven to be a highly flexible tool, able to
cover experiments from a variety of different
fields ranging from atomic, nuclear and molecular physics to biology and chemistry. Future machines will decisively
rely on efficient electron cooling down to electron energies as low as some eV, posing new challenges to the cooler
layout and operation. The BETACOOL code has already been successfully applied for the layout and optimization
of a number of different electron coolers around the world. In this contribution, the results from calculations of the
cooling rates at future low-energy machines equipped with an internal target like the Ultra-low energy Storage Ring
(USR) at the Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and Ion Research (FLAIR) are presented.
Layout of the USR at FLAIR
C.P. Welsch, C.P. Welsch (CERN) M. Grieser, J. Ullrich, A. Wolf
(MPI-K)
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The Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and
Ion Research (FLAIR) and a large part of the
wide physics program decisively rely on new
experimental techniques to cool and slow
down antiprotons to 20 keV, namely on the development of an ultra-low energy electrostatic storage ring (USR).
The whole research program connected with anti-matter/matter interactions is only feasible if such a machine will
be realized For the USR to fulfil its key role in the FLAIR project, the development of novel and challenging methods
and technologies is necessary: the combination of the electrostatic storage mode with a deceleration of the stored ions
from 300 keV to 20 keV, electron cooling at all energies in both longitudinal and transverse phase-space, bunching of
the stored beam to ultra-short pulses in the nanosecond regime and the development of an in-ring reaction microscope
for antiproton-matter rearrangement experiments. In this contribution, the layout and the expected beam parameters
of the USR are presented and its role within FLAIR described. The machine lattice and the cooler parameters are
summarized.
Design and Commissioning of a Compact Electron Cooler for the S-LSR
H. Fadil, S. Fujimoto, A. Noda, T. Shirai, H. Souda, H. Tongu (Kyoto
ICR) T. Fujimoto, S.I. Iwata, S. Shibuya (AEC) M. Grieser (MPI-K)
K. Noda (NIRS) I.A. Seleznev, E. Syresin (JINR)
The ion cooler ring S-LSR has been constructed
and commissioned in October 2005.
The ring successfully stored a 7 MeV proton
beam. The S-LSR is equipped with a compact-electron
cooler which has a cooling so-
lenoid length of 0.8 m, a toroid bending radius of 0.25 m and maximum magnetic field in the cooling section of 0.5
kG. The commissioning of the electron cooler was carried out with successful observation of both longitudinal and
horizontal cooling of the proton beam. By varying the electric potential on the Pierce electrode in the gun, we have
investigated the possibility of generating a hollow shaped electron beam, and studied its effect on the electron cooling
process. Also the effect of the electrostatic deflector, installed in the toroid section in order to compensate the drift
motion of the secondary electrons, was investigated. The design and results of the commissioning of the compact
electron cooler are presented.