Preliminary Announcement
Second Workshop on Medium Energy Electron Cooling
Fermilab, 12 -- 14 February 1996
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A small workshop was held at Fermilab in February '95 to consider whether
electron cooling is a practicable approach to obtaining bright, high intensity
antiproton beam to raise Tevatron Collider luminosity above 10^32 cm^-2 s^-1.
It appears that electron cooling will be crucial in the program to push
for luminosity of 10^33 and beyond. The Laboratory has embarked on an R & D
program in electron cooling with a short term aim of cooling antiprotons at
8 GeV with a 200 mA, 4.3 MeV electron beam in a cooling straight of nearly
100 m. There is a longer range goal of increasing the electron beam current by
a factor of ten or more. The development program is still in a startup phase,
but plans are well along and some beam measurements are underway. This workshop
is the first of an intended sequence which will consider opportunities at other
installations as well as at the Tevatron.
BEAM OPTICS - spacecharge dominated transport, cooling section design,
gun/collector design, etc.
BEAM PHYSICS - stability, beam neutralization, cooling performance
estimates
INSTRUMENTATION - electron beam characterization, beam alignment
HIGH VOLTAGE - sources, regulation, operational features
A second announcement with more specific plans will be distributed quite
soon. Current information covering any omissions from the distribution or
last-minute changes of plan will be provided on the Fermilab conference web
page http://www.fnal.gov/faw/conferences.html
and background on the electron cooling R & D project is available onhttp://www-fermi3.fnal.gov/
For further information contact
Cynthia M. Sazama
Fermilab, MS 122
Box 500
Batavia IL 60510
sazama@fnal.gov (708)840-4102
Last Update: 28 December 1995