Speaker
Description
Experiments at the ESR storage ring at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany) have demonstrated the power and the potential of laser cooling of bunched relativistic ion beams, using either continuous or pulsed UV laser light. Based on this, a novel 3-beam concept was developed using three separate highly tunable UV laser systems. There will be two powerful pulsed laser systems with MHz repetition rates and variable pulse duration (10-740 ps) and one powerful CW laser system. The 3-beam concept will also be part of the new laser cooling facility, which is being built at the heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR. The 3-beam concept combined with RF-bunching will allow for powerful and fast cooling of injected intense heavy-ion beams. We will present latest experimental results from the ESR and the status of the SIS100 laser cooling facility.
Funding Agency
We gratefully acknowledge the funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
| Region represented | Europe |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
