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| MOP29 | RHIC Electron Cooler | 102 |
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| Electron cooling has been applied in many accelerators with low energies where cooling times are short. Electron cooling is now considered for RHIC, where gold ions are stored at 100 GeV/u. For a cooling time of one hour an electron beam with 55 MeV and 10 nC/bunch is necessary. The transverse normalized emittance must be 50 mm·mrad, the energy spread 10-4. Only a Photo-cathode Energy Recovery LINAC (PERL) promises such quality. For a minimum electron temperature inside the 1 Tesla cooling solenoid it is necessary to have a "magnetized beam", i.e. a beam from a cathode immersed in a longitudinal magnetic field. The emittance compensation scheme used in RF guns was adapted so that the magnetization does not lead to strong emittance growth. A super-conducting cavity was developed for the RHIC electron cooler, optimized for high current operation. Simulations with the TBBU computer code show a multi-bunch beam breakup threshold of 3 Amperes. After acceleration the bunches are lengthened and the energy spread is reduced by rotation in the longitudinal phase space. The original bunch length must be restored by a second rotation before deceleration and energy recovery. |