Preliminary Announcement Second Workshop on Medium Energy Electron Cooling Fermilab, 12 -- 14 February 1996 =============================================================================== 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