• M.O.A. El Ghazaly
  KUK, Abha
• M.H. Al-Malki, M.O.A. El Ghazaly
  KACST, Riyadh
• A.I. Papash
  MPI-K, Heidelberg
• C.P. Welsch
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire

At the National Centre for Mathematics and Physics (NCMP), at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia, a multi-purpose low-energy experimental platform is presently being developed in collaboration with the QUASAR group. The aim of this project is to enable a multitude of low-energy experiments with most different kinds of ions both in single pass setups, but also with ions stored in a low-energy electrostatic storage ring. In this contribution, the injector of this complex is presented. It was designed to provide beams with energies of up to 30 kV/q and will allow for switching between different ion sources from e.g. duoplasmatron to electrospray ion sources and to thus provide the users with a wide range of different beams. We present the overall layout of the injector with a focus on its mechanical and ion optical design.

• A.I. Papash
  MPI-K, Heidelberg
• C.P. Welsch
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire

Funding: Work supported by the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF) under contract number VH-NG-328 and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH

In the future Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and Ion Research (FLAIR) at GSI, the Ultra-low energy electrostatic Storage Ring (USR) will provide cooled beams of antiprotons and possibly also highly charged ions down to energies of 20 keV/q. A large variety of the envisaged experiments demands a very flexible ring lattice to provide a beam with variable cross section, shape and time structure, ranging from ultra-short pulses to coasting beams. The preliminary design of the USR worked out in 2005 was not optimized in this respect and had to be reconsidered. In this contribution we present the final layout of the USR with a focus on its “split-achromat” geometry, the combined fast/slow extraction, and show the different modes of operation required for electron cooling, internal experiments, or beam extraction. We finally give a summary of the machine parameters and the layout of the optical elements.

• A.I. Papash
  MPI-K, Heidelberg
• C.P. Welsch
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire

Funding: Work supported by the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF) under contract number VH-NG-328 and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH.

One of the central goals of the Ultra-Low energy Storage Ring (USR) project within the future Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and Ion Research (FLAIR) is to provide very short bunches in the 1-2 nanosecond regime to pave the way for kinematically complete measurements of the collision dynamics of fundamental few-body quantum systems – for the first time on the level of differential cross sections. The “short pulse” operation mode may be split up in two steps: First, the cooled coasting beam of low energy ions will be adiabatically captured by a high harmonic RF cavity (20 MHz) into ~50 ns buckets. Second, the beam will be compressed to very short pulses with a desired width of only 1-2 ns by an RF buncher located 2 m in front of the so-called reaction microscope. To efficiently limit the beam energy spread, RF decompression is then done at after the experiment to avoid beam losses. In this contribution, we present numerical investigations of this very particular operation mode.

• M.O.A. El Ghazaly
  KUK, Abha
• M.H. Al-Malki, M.O.A. El Ghazaly
  KACST, Riyadh
• A.I. Papash
  MPI-K, Heidelberg
• C.P. Welsch
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire

A state-of-the-art fixed energy electrostatic storage ring that will allow for precision experiments with most different kinds of ions in the energy range of up to 30 keV will be constructed and operated at the National Center for Mathematic and Physics (NCMP) at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). The ring is planed to be the central machine of a unique and highly flexible experimental platform. The lattice design therefore has to cover the different experimental techniques that the ring will be equipped with, such as e.g. electron-ion crossed-beams and ion-laser/ion-ion/ion-neutral merged-beams techniques. This paper presents the technical and particle optical design of this novel machine, explains the particular challenges in its layout, and reports on the general project status.