• DocumentCode
    3196145
  • Title

    Laser Cooling of Relativistic Heavy Ion Beams

  • Author

    Schramm, U. ; Bussmann, M. ; Habs, D. ; Kuhl, T. ; Beckert, K. ; Beller, P. ; Franzke, B. ; Nolden, F. ; Steck, M. ; Saathoff, G. ; Reinhardt, S. ; Karpuk, S.

  • Author_Institution
    LMU Munich, Germany, www. ha. physik. uni-muenchen. de/uschramm/
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    16-20 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    401
  • Lastpage
    403
  • Abstract
    We report on the experimental demonstration of laser cooling of a C3+ion beam performed at the ESR (GSI) at an energy of E = 1.47 GeV. The decelerating laser force of one Doppler-tuned UV laser beam was counteracted by moderately bunching the beam. This versatile scheme lead to longitudinally ‘space-charge dominated’ beams with an unprecedented momentum spread of Δp/p ≈ 10–7. Concerning beam energy and charge state of the ion, the experiment depicts an important step from the field of laser cooling of ion beams at low energies toward the laser cooling scheme proposed for relativistic beams of highly charged heavy ions at the future GSI facility FAIR.
  • Keywords
    Cooling; Electrons; Heating; Ion beams; Laser beams; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Paramagnetic resonance; Ring lasers; Storage rings;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8859-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PAC.2005.1590446
  • Filename
    1590446