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TUPPM2R3 |
Laser Cooling of Stored Bunched Relativistic Carbon Ions at the ESR, using a Novel Tunable High Repetition Rate Pulsed Laser System | |
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Funding: We acknowledge the support by BMBF ErUM-FSP APPA for the laser systems (05P16ODFA1, 05P15RDFA1, 05P12RDRB2 and 05P09RDFA3) and the detector systems (05P19PMFA1), and by Helmholtz POF IV MT ARD (ST2). Laser cooling at storage rings has proven to be a powerful technique to obtain ion with a very small relative longitudinal momentum spread (1E-6 range). This contribution will give an overview of the principle and status of bunched beam laser cooling at the experimental storage ring ESR at GSI, Germany. Results from a recent laser cooling beamtime in May 2021 at the ESR will be presented, where broadband laser cooling of bunched relativistic C3+ ion beams was successfully demonstrated for the first time using a sophisticated pulsed UV laser system with a very high repetition rate (~ MHz), variable pulse durations (166 - 735 ps) and high UV power (> 250 mW). |
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WEPAM2R2 |
Heavy, Highly-charged Ions at GSI/FAIR Decelerated and Cooled | |
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At GSI/FAIR heavy, highly charged ions for precision experiments are stripped at high energy and then slowed down in steps and cooled. Final deceleration to about 1 MeV/u is done in a dedicated low-energy storage ring. For this, the existing storage ring CRYRING, has been transferred from Stockholm to Darmstadt, refurbished and taken into operation. The CRYRING@ESR facility is in routine operation now providing ions for experiments either via the ESR but also from a local ECR ion source. Major challenges are the detection of weak and slow ion beams and the vacuum conditions. To get well below 1 MeV/u ion beam energy, a linear decelerator in conjunction with a Penning trap, HITRAP, has been built and partly commissioned. After deceleration to only a few eV/nucleon electron cooling and resistive cooling shall be applied. Electron cooling is relatively unexplored in Penning traps. However, a first interaction of simultaneously stored electrons with highly-charged ions has been detected in the HITRAP cooling trap recently. Further investigation and especially an improved alignment eventually lead to first signs of electron cooling of highly-charged ions in a Penning trap. | ||
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