Stochastic Cooling Developments at GSI

Stochastic Cooling is presently used at the existing storage ring ESR as a first stage of cooling for secondary heavy ion beams. In the frame of the FAIR project at GSI, stochastic cooling is planned to play a major role for the preparation of high quality antiproton and rare isotope beams. The paper describes the existing ESR system, the first stage cooling system at the planned Collector Ring, and will also cover first steps toward the design of an antiproton collection system at the planned RESR ring