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Title: Beam profile diagnostics for the Fermilab medium energy electron cooler

Journal Article ·

The Fermilab Recycler ring will employ an electron cooler to store and cool 8.9 GeV antiprotons. The cooler will be based on a Pelletron electrostatic accelerator working in an energy-recovery regime. Several techniques for determining the characteristics of the beam dynamics are being investigated. Beam profiles have been measured as a function of the beam line optics at the energy of 3.5 MeV in the current range of 10{sup -4}-1 A, with a pulse duration of 2 {micro}s. The profiles were measured using optical transition radiation produced at the interface of a 250 {micro}m aluminum foil and also from YAG crystal luminescence. In addition, beam profiles measured using multi-wire detectors were investigated. These three diagnostics will be used together to determine the profile dynamics of the beam. In this paper we report the results so far obtained using these techniques.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
OSTI ID:
15020259
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-05-330-AD; TRN: US0605065
Resource Relation:
Conference: To appear in the proceedings of 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS / MIC), Rome, Italy, 16-22 Oct 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English