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Title: Optical Stochastic Cooling Program at Fermilab's Integrable Optics Test Accelerator

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OSTI ID:1580061

Beam cooling enables an increase of peak and average luminosities and significantly expands the discovery potential of colliders. Optical Stochastic Cooling (OSC) is a high-bandwidth cooling technique that will advance the present state-of-the-art, stochastic-cooling rate by more than three orders of magnitude. A proof-of-principle demonstration with protons or heavy ions involves prohibitive costs, risks and technological challenges; however, exploration of OSC with electrons is a cost-effective alternative for studying the beam-cooling physics, optical systems and diagnostics. The ability to demonstrate OSC was a key requirement in the design of Fermilab's Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) ring. The IOTA program will explore the physics and technology of OSC in amplified and non-amplified configurations. We also plan to investigate the cooling and manipulation of a single electron stored in the ring. The OSC apparatus is currently being fabricated, and installation will begin in the fall of 2019. In this contribution, we will describe the IOTA OSC program, the upcoming passive-OSC experimental runs and ongoing preparations for an amplified-OSC experiment.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
IOTA
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1580061
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-19-430-AD; oai:inspirehep.net:1770846
Resource Relation:
Conference: 3rd North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2019), Lansing, Michigan, 09/01-09/06/2019
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English