Transversal temperature measurement in electron cooling experiment

In order to optimize the beam properties and achieve satisfactory cooling performance for an electron cooling device, it is essential to have adequate diagnostics system both for use on a test stand and in the operational environment. Beam transversal electron temperature is a very important information to be picked up. For this purpose pick-ups with a high sensitivity and a wide bandwidth, working in the microwave bands, are suggested. The use of such a kind of pick-ups is directly correlated to the fact that the electron beam is confined in an axial magnetic field. In this paper the study, design and laboratory results of pick-up to measure the transversal temperature of the electron beam, in a high-energy electron cooling device, are presented

A storage ring for crystalline beam studies

The possibility of generating crystallized ion beams, i.e. beams whose particles are located at fixed positions, has always excited the interest of most people working on particle accelerators. The reason of this interest has many aspects: knowledge either of a completely new research field or of some of the applicative potentialities, connected with crystalline beams, would justify a careful investigation of this subject. After the successful exploitation of electron cooling in several heavy ion storage rings the possibility of generating crystalline ion beams became more realistic. New cooling methods, like laser cooling, give a further opportunity to reach an ultracold system of particles necessary for the state transition to the crystalline configuration. The conceptual design of a low-energy heavy-ion storage ring, called CRYSTAL, proposed for the experimental demonstration of crystalline beams at Legnaro Laboratories is presented. The physics of crystalline beams as well as the main criteria to design a storage ring suitable to crystallize ion beams are discussed. The effects of instabilities for space charge dominated beams, shear forces in dipole magnets and lattice periodicity breaking are also discussed in detail