JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
Douglas Consulting, York, Virginia, USA
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Dimtel, Redwood City, California, USA
NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
The future electron-ion collider (EIC) aims at an electron-proton luminosity of 1033 to 1034 cm-2 sec-1 and a center-of-mass energy range from 20 to 140 GeV. The eRHIC design has been continuously evolving over a couple of years and has reached a considerable level of maturity. The concept is generally conservative with very few risk items which are mitigated in various ways.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
The Low Energy RHIC electron Cooler (LEReC) was recently constructed and commissioned at BNL. The LEReC is the first electron cooler based on the RF acceleration of electron bunches (previous electron coolers all used DC beams). Bunched electron beams are necessary for cooling hadron beams at high energies. The challenges of such an approach include generation of electron beams suitable for cooling, delivery of electron beams of the required quality to the cooling sections without degradation of beam emittances and energy spread, achieving required small angles between electrons and ions in the cooling sections, precise energy matching between the two beams, high-current operation of the electron accelerator, as well as several physics effects related to bunched beam cooling. Following successful commissioning of the electron accelerator in 2018, the focus of the LEReC project in 2019 was on establishing electron-ion interactions and demonstration of cooling process using electron energy of 1.6MeV (ion energy of 3.85GeV/n), which is the lowest energy of interest. Here we report on the first demonstration of Au ion cooling in RHIC using this new approach.