Electron cooling of proton beams with intense space-charge at IOTA

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Abstract

Electron cooling as a method of creating intense ion beams has a practical upper limit when it comes to the peak phase space density of ion beams which can be achieved in practice. We describe a new experiment to study electron cooling of 2.5 MeV protons at the intensity limit using the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA), which is a storage ring dedicated to beam physics research at Fermilab. This system will enable the study of magnetized electron cooling of a proton beam with transverse incoherent tune shifts approaching -0.5 due to the presence of intense space-charge forces. We present an overview of the hardware design, simulations and specific experiments planned for this project.

*This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. This research is also supported by the University of Chicago.

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Presenters

  • Nilanjan Banerjee

    • The University of Chicago
    • University of Chicago

Authors

  • Nilanjan Banerjee

    • The University of Chicago
    • University of Chicago

  • Mary K Bossard

    • University of Chicago

  • John Brandt

    • University of Chicago

  • Young-Kee Kim

    • University of Chicago

  • Brandon Cathey

    • Fermilab

  • Sergei Nagaitsev

    • Fermilab

  • Giulio Stancari

    • Fermilab