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Title: Accurate setting of electron energy for demonstration of first hadron beam cooling with rf-accelerated electron bunches

Abstract

The world’s first electron cooling based on the rf acceleration of electron bunches was experimentally demonstrated at the Low Energy RHIC Electron Cooler (LEReC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The critical step in obtaining cooling of the Au ions in the collider with this new approach was matching the electron and ion relativistic γ-factors with a relative error of less than 5 × 10–4. Since the electron beam kinetic energy was just 1.6 MeV, it was required to set the absolute energy of electrons with an accuracy better than 0.8 keV. The method of setting electron energy in conventional coolers was unsuitable for LEReC and a new technique had to be developed. In this paper we describe our experience with measuring the electron beam energy at LEReC and precisely matching electron and ion γ-factors, which resulted in demonstration of the cooling.

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Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1575964
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1579900
Report Number(s):
BNL-212419-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888; PRABCJ; 111004
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Journal Volume: 22 Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

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Seletskiy, S., Blaskiewicz, M., Drees, A., Fedotov, A., Fischer, W., Gassner, D. M., Gu, X., Hulsart, R., Kayran, D., Kewisch, J., Liu, C., Mernick, K., Michnoff, R., Miller, T., Minty, M., Robert-Demolaize, G., Schoefer, V., Song, H., Thieberger, P., and Wanderer, P. Accurate setting of electron energy for demonstration of first hadron beam cooling with rf-accelerated electron bunches. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.111004.
Seletskiy, S., Blaskiewicz, M., Drees, A., Fedotov, A., Fischer, W., Gassner, D. M., Gu, X., Hulsart, R., Kayran, D., Kewisch, J., Liu, C., Mernick, K., Michnoff, R., Miller, T., Minty, M., Robert-Demolaize, G., Schoefer, V., Song, H., Thieberger, P., & Wanderer, P. Accurate setting of electron energy for demonstration of first hadron beam cooling with rf-accelerated electron bunches. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.111004
Seletskiy, S., Blaskiewicz, M., Drees, A., Fedotov, A., Fischer, W., Gassner, D. M., Gu, X., Hulsart, R., Kayran, D., Kewisch, J., Liu, C., Mernick, K., Michnoff, R., Miller, T., Minty, M., Robert-Demolaize, G., Schoefer, V., Song, H., Thieberger, P., and Wanderer, P. Wed . "Accurate setting of electron energy for demonstration of first hadron beam cooling with rf-accelerated electron bunches". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.111004.
@article{osti_1575964,
title = {Accurate setting of electron energy for demonstration of first hadron beam cooling with rf-accelerated electron bunches},
author = {Seletskiy, S. and Blaskiewicz, M. and Drees, A. and Fedotov, A. and Fischer, W. and Gassner, D. M. and Gu, X. and Hulsart, R. and Kayran, D. and Kewisch, J. and Liu, C. and Mernick, K. and Michnoff, R. and Miller, T. and Minty, M. and Robert-Demolaize, G. and Schoefer, V. and Song, H. and Thieberger, P. and Wanderer, P.},
abstractNote = {The world’s first electron cooling based on the rf acceleration of electron bunches was experimentally demonstrated at the Low Energy RHIC Electron Cooler (LEReC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The critical step in obtaining cooling of the Au ions in the collider with this new approach was matching the electron and ion relativistic γ-factors with a relative error of less than 5 × 10–4. Since the electron beam kinetic energy was just 1.6 MeV, it was required to set the absolute energy of electrons with an accuracy better than 0.8 keV. The method of setting electron energy in conventional coolers was unsuitable for LEReC and a new technique had to be developed. In this paper we describe our experience with measuring the electron beam energy at LEReC and precisely matching electron and ion γ-factors, which resulted in demonstration of the cooling.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.111004},
journal = {Physical Review Accelerators and Beams},
number = 11,
volume = 22,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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