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TY - UNPB AU - Fedotov, A.V. ED - Akers, Evelyn (Jefferson Lab), Satogata, Todd Satogata (Jefferson Lab), Schaa, Volker RW Schaa (GSI) TI - Low Energy RHIC Electron Cooling (LEReC) Project J2 - Proc. of COOL2015, Newport News, VA, USA, September 28 - October 2, 2015 C1 - Newport News, VA, USA T2 - International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics T3 - 10 LA - english AB - An electron cooler is presently under construction to improve the luminosity of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) for heavy ion beam energies below 10 GeV/nucleon. Required electron beam and its acceleration (up to 2 MeV in Phase-I and up to 5 MeV in Phase-II) are provided by the photoemission electron gun and the RF linear accelerator. As a result, cooling will be accomplished by using bunched electron beams produced by high-brightness high-current electron linear accelerator. In addition, this will be the first electron cooling applied directly in a collider. In this presentation we describe accelerator physics requirements, design considerations and parameters, as well as associated challenges of such a low-energy RHIC electron cooler (LEReC). PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -