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| MOPRB065 | Enhancing Experimental Prospects With Low Energy Antiprotons | proton, detector, experiment, cryogenics | 727 |
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Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkłodowskaCurie grant agreement No 721559. The Extra Low Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA) is a critical upgrade to the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN and saw the first beam in 2018. ELENA will significantly enhance the achievable quality of low energy antiproton beams and enable new experiments. To fully exploit the potential of this new facility, advances are required in numerical tools that can adequately model beam transport, life time and interaction, beam diagnostics tools and detectors to fully characterize the beam’s properties, as well as in novel experiments that take advantage of the enhanced beam quality that ELENA can provide. These research areas are in the heart of the pan-European research and training network AVA (Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics) which started in 2017. This contribution presents research results within AVA on the performance of ultra-thin diamond membranes, electron cooling and beam life time studies of low energy ion and antiproton beams, as well as efficient integration and performance optimization of cryogenic detectors in ELENA and associated trap experiments. These results are used to describe the optimum layout of a state-of-the-art low energy antiproton facility and associated experiments. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPRB065 | ||
| About • | paper received ※ 13 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 17 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | ||
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| WEPGW090 | Emittance Evolution of Low Energy Antiproton Beams in the Presence of Deceleration and Cooling | emittance, electron, proton, closed-orbit | 2697 |
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| The commissioning of the Extra Low Energy Antiproton (ELENA) ring has been completed before the start of the second long shutdown (LS2) at CERN. First beams to an experiment in a new experimental zone have as well already been delivered. ELENA will begin distributing 100 keV cooled antiproton beams to all antimatter experiments in 2021. This contribution presents measurements made using a novel scraping algorithm capable of determining the emittance of non-Gaussian beams in the presence of dispersive effects. The emittance is sampled during various sections of the ELENA deceleration cycle, investigating the efficiency of the electron cooler and extracting additional information from the beam. The electron cooler is shown to effectively reduce the transverse phase space after blow-up during deceleration. The beam is characterised before extraction for the purpose of tracking and optimisation of the new electrostatic transfer lines currently being installed. Finally, the application of the scraping algorithm to other machines with a scraper located in a dispersive region is discussed. | |||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPGW090 | ||
| About • | paper received ※ 14 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 20 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | ||
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| THPRB069 | The New Digital Low-Level RF System for CERN’s Extra Low Energy Antiproton Machine | LLRF, proton, extraction, operation | 3962 |
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| CERN’s new Extra Low ENergy Antiproton accelerator/decelerator (ELENA) completed its initial commissioning in 2018. This machine is equipped with a new digital Low-Level RF (LLRF) system that implements beam and cavity loops as well as longitudinal diagnostics. ELENA’s LLRF was instrumental for machine commissioning by decelerating some 1 E7 antiprotons from 5.3 MeV to 100 keV. Commissioning with H− ions took also place. Challenges faced included coping with low beam intensity and the wide frequency swing. This paper gives an overview of the LLRF system capabilities and operation. Beam results achieved with both H− ions and antiprotons are also shown. | |||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPRB069 | ||
| About • | paper received ※ 13 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 21 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | ||
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| THPRB070 | A New Digital Low-Level RF and Longitudinal Diagnostic System for CERN’s AD | LLRF, proton, diagnostics, operation | 3966 |
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| The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has been routinely providing 3 E7 antiprotons since July 2000 at 100 MeV/c from 3.5 GeV/c. It will be refurbished during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) to provide reliable operation for the new Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) ring. AD will be equipped with a new digital Low-Level RF (LLRF) system before its restart in 2021. Diagnostics to measure beam intensity, Δp/p and Schottky spectra will also be developed. This paper is an overview of the planned capabilities and implementations, as well as of the challenges to overcome. | |||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPRB070 | ||
| About • | paper received ※ 13 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 23 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | ||
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