This talk discusses fundamentals of ion beam cooling with continuous wave and pulsed laser systems at relativistic energies. It starts with reviewing key aspects of laser cooling of ion beams before discussing recent expeimental results from Germany and China. It then looks at the prospects of integrating permanent laser coolers into storage ring facilities such as SIS 100 at FAIR an the...
Laser cooling is a promising technique to achieve a narrow momentum distribution of relativistic bunched ions in accelerators. This technique allows efficient cooling, especially for highly relativistic ion beams and heavy ions, with cooling times on the order of seconds. Previous experiments at the ESR have successfully demonstrated laser cooling of relativistic bunched ion beams with both a...
Relativistic ion beams with a narrow momentum distribution are crucial for high-precision experiments at accelerator facilities. Laser cooling offers a promising approach to further reduce the momentum spread, thereby enhancing the ion beam quality. Previous experiments conducted at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) at GSI have demonstrated the efficiency of both continuous-wave (cw) and...