Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
Microwave instability of an electron beam can be used for a multiple increase in the collective response for the perturbation caused by a particle of a co-moving ion beam, i.e. for enhancement of friction force in electron cooling method. The low scale (hundreds GHz and larger frequency range) space charge or FEL type instabilities can be produced (depending on conditions) by introducing an alternating magnetic fields along the electron beam path. Beams’ optics and noise conditioning for obtaining a maximal cooling effect and related limitations will be discussed. The method promises to increase by a few orders of magnitude the cooling rate for heavy particle beams with a large emittance for a wide energy range with respect to either electron and conventional stochastic cooling [1,2].
[1] Ya. S.Derbenev, Coherent Electron Cooling, UM HE 91-28, August 7, 1991[2] Ya. S.Derbenev, AIP Conf. Proc., No 253, p. 103. AIP 1992
