Laser cooling of stored relativistic ion beams with large momentum spreads using a laser system with a wide scanning range


Laser cooling of stored relativistic ion beams with large momentum spreads using a laser system with a wide scanning range

Wen, W.; Winters, D.; Beck, T.; Rein, B.; Walther, T.; Tichelmann, S.; Birkl, G.; Sanchez-Alarcon, R.; Ullmann, J.; Lochmann, M.; Nörtershäuser, W.; Clark, C.; Kozhuharov, C.; Kühl, T.; Sanjari, S.; Litvinov, Y.; Giacomini, T.; Steck, M.; Dimopoulou, C.; Nolden, F.; Stöhlker, T.; Yang, J.; Zhang, D.; Ma, X.; Seltmann, M.; Siebold, M.; Schramm, U.; Bussmann, M.

New results on laser cooling of stored, bunched, relativistic ion beams are presented. For the first time it has been possible to cool an ion beam with large momentum spread without initial electron cooling or scanning of the bunching frequency by using a single cw laser system.

Keywords: laser cooling; ion beams; relativistic; cw laser; scanning; broadband

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