Preliminary Announcement: Second Workshop on Medium Energy Electron Cooling
                        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 on 

http://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