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| THPP048 | Experimental Demonstration of Longitudinal Ion Beam Accumulation with Electron Cooling | 3470 |
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Recently, two longitudinal beam compression schemes have been successfully tested in the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) at GSI with a beam of bare Ar ions at 65 MeV/u injected from the ion synchrotron SIS18. The first employs Barrier Bucket pulses, the second makes use of multiple injections around the unstable fixed point of a sinusoidal RF bucket at h=1. In both cases continuous electron cooling maintains the stack and merges it with the freshly injected bunch *. Using the beam diagnostic devices in the ring both stacking processes were demonstrated under the same conditions. The dependence of the accumulation performance on the available rf potential, the electron cooling strength as well as on the synchronization conditions between injection kicker pulse and rf wave was investigated. These experimental results provide the proof of principle for the planned fast stacking of Rare Isotope Beams aiming at high luminosities in the New Experimental Storage Ring ** of the FAIR project ***.
* C. Dimopoulou et al., JACoW Proceedings of COOL07, Bad Kreuznach,2007. |