Status of the Fermilab electron cooling project

✍ Scribed by S. Nagaitsev; A. Burov; K. Carlson; V. Dudnikov; B. Kramper; T. Kroc; J. Leibfritz; M. McGee; G. Saewert; C.W. Schmidt; A. Shemyakin; A. Warner; S. Seletsky; V. Tupikov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Volume: 532
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.06.056

✦ Synopsis

A prototype of a 4.3-MeV electron cooling system has been assembled at Fermilab as part of the on-going R&D program in high-energy electron cooling. This electron cooler prototype will not demonstrate the actual cooling but it would allow to determine if the electron beam properties are suitable for antiproton beam cooling. An electron beam is accelerated by a 5-MV Pelletron (Van de Graaff type) accelerator and transported to a prototype cooling section. The cooling would take place in a 20-m long solenoid flanked on both sides by supply and return beam-lines-a total of 60 m of transport channel. This paper describes the status of the electron cooling R&D program.