U. Bechstedt

ANKE, a new facility for medium energy hadron physics at COSY-Jülich

Abstract ANKE is a new experimental facility for the spectroscopy of products from proton-induced reactions on internal targets. It has recently been implemented in the accelerator ring of the cooler synchrotron COSY of the Forschungszentrum Julich (FZ-Julich), Germany. The device consists of three dipole magnets, various target installations and dedicated detection systems. It will enable a variety of hadron-physics experiments like meson production in elementary proton–nucleon processes and studies of medium modifications in proton–nucleus interactions.

SPARC experiments at the high-energy storage ring

The physics program of the SPARC collaboration at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) focuses on the study of collision phenomena in strong and even extreme electromagnetic fields and on the fundamental interactions between electrons and heavy nuclei up to bare uranium. Here we give a short overview on the challenging physics opportunities of the high-energy storage ring at FAIR for future experiments with heavy-ion beams at relativistic energies with particular emphasis on the basic beam properties to be expected.

COSY-SCL, the superconducting injector linac for COSY

The superconducting injector linac COSY-SCL is being designed and constructed at the Forschungszentrum Juelich. The train goal of the new injector is to fill the cooler synchrotron COSY with polarized protons as well as with polarized deuterons up to the space-charge limit at injection energy. COSY-SCL is characterized by a base frequency of 160 MHz, 25 kV ion-source extraction voltage, a pulse length of up to 500 /spl mu/s, a maximum repetition rate of 2 Hz, injection into the linac at /spl beta/=0.073 and injection into COSY at kinetic energies of 52 MeV for protons and 56 MeV for deuterons, respectively. The injector configuration is presented, and its main subsystems-ion source (CIPIOS from IUCF for polarized H/sup -/ and D/sup -/), RFQ (built in co-operation with the University of Frankfurt), linac (based on half-wave resonators operating at 160 and 320 MHz)- are described and discussed. The present status of the project is reported.

Cooler synchrotron COSY

Abstract COSY Julich is a cooler synchrotron and storage ring delivering high precision beams with at present up to 5·10 10 protons with momenta between 600 MeV/c and 3.3 GeV/c for medium energy physics. Two cooling systems are used to accomplish this goal. An electron-cooling system that reaches up to a momentum of 645 MeV/c and a stochastic cooling system that covers the upper momentum range from 1500 to 3300 MeV/c. Since its inauguration in April 1993 substantial progress in developing beams for internal and external experiments has been achieved and the physics program is now running. At the beginning of 1996 a polarized proton beam could be successfully accelerated up to 820 MeV/c for the first time.

Acceleration of Polarized Protons and Deuterons at COSY

At the cooler synchrotron COSY, protons and deuterons are accelerated up to 3.65 GeV/c. Vertically polarized proton beams with more than 70% polarization have been delivered in recent years to internal as well as to external experiment areas at different momenta up to the maximum momentum of COSY. In a strong‐focusing synchrotron like COSY, imperfection and intrinsic resonances cause polarization losses during acceleration. The existing magnet system of COSY allows to overcome all imperfection resonances by exciting adiabatic spin flips without polarization losses. A tune‐jump system consisting of two fast quadrupoles has been developed to handle intrinsic resonances in COSY. This magnet system is being successfully utilized at all intrinsic resonances in the momentum range of COSY. For the acceleration of vertically polarized deuterons, additional correction provisions are not necessary to preserve polarization during acceleration because depolarizing resonances are not crossed in the momentum range of C...

The cooler synchrotron COSY in Jülich

Abstract COSY Julich is a cooler synchrotron and storage ring with a proton momentum range from 270 to 3300 MeV/c. It has been conceived to deliver high precision beams for medium energy physics. To accomplish this goal two cooling systems are foreseen: an electron cooling system for the momentum range up to 645 MeV/c and a stochastic cooling system which covers the upper momentum range from 1500 to 3300 MeV/c. Proton beams in a wide momentum range have been delivered to internal as well as external experiments. The beam properties measured by these experiments and the main parameters of COSY are presented.

First internal and external experiments at COSY Juelich

Abstract The inauguration of the cooler synchrotron COSY Julich was celebrated on April 1st, 1993. After the first successful acceleration to proton momenta above 800 GeV/ c , beamtimes for experiments were scheduled in parallel to further machine development. The first experiment was the internal target experiment EDDA, which investigated the energy dependence of the p-p interaction. It makes use of a 3 × 4 μ m 2 thin CH 2 fiber as an internal target. The thickness of the fiber is more than adequate to achieve high luminosities, so the intensity of the stored beam has to be reduced to 10 7 p. On the other hand, it is thin enough to achieve beam lifetimes of 3 s at 1.4 GeV/ c . Details of the target fabrication and the first experimental results will be discussed. Both external experimental facilities at COSY, the time-of-flight spectrometer, and the magnetic spectrometer BIG KARL use a liquid hydrogen (deuterium) target. The first experiments were carried out at proton energies between 300 MeV and 500 MeV. Also, these experimental data will be presented. Two further internal experiments are prepared for the installation into the COSY ring. The target for the first experiment is a gas-jet target, the second experiment uses ribbon targets for the interaction. The status of both experimental setups will be shown.

Overcoming Depolarizing Resonances at COSY

At the cooler synchrotron COSY, polarized protons and deuterons are accelerated up to 3.65 GeV/c. In a strong‐focusing synchrotron like COSY, imperfection and intrinsic resonances cause polarization losses during acceleration. During the acceleration of polarized protons, five imperfection resonances are crossed. The existing magnet system of COSY allows to overcome all imperfection resonances by exciting adiabatic spin flips without polarization losses. The number of intrinsic resonances depends on the superperiodicity of the lattice. A tune‐jump system consisting of two fast quadrupoles has been developed to handle intrinsic resonances in COSY. Vertically polarized proton beams with more than 75% polarization have been delivered in recent years to internal as well as to external experiment areas at different momenta up to the maximum momentum of COSY. For the acceleration of polarized deuterons, additional correction provisions are not necessary to preserve polarization during acceleration. In this pape...

Status of the cooler synchrotron Cosy-Juelich

The cooler synchrotron COSY delivers unpolarized and polarized protons and deuterons in the momentum range 300 MeV/c up to 3.65 GeV/c. Electron cooling at injection level and stochastic cooling covering the range from 1.5 GeV/c up to maximum momentum are available to prepare high precision beams for internal as well as external experiments in hadron physics. The beam is fed to external experiments by a fast kicker extraction or by stochastic extraction. Results of extracted electron cooled beams and developments to increase the number of stored particles and to increase the degree of polarization during acceleration are reported

Beam shaping using a new digital noise generator

A novel digital RF-noise generator was used to excite the COSY-beam longitudinally at a certain harmonic of the revolution frequency. Rectangular shaped noise spectra with bandwidths of the order of 10 kHz and frequency resolution of about 6 Hz were used. Beam distributions were measured during shaping and after switching off the noise source in dependence of bandwidth and amplitude of the RF-noise.