As a part of a feasibility study of using the Fermilab Electron Cooler for a low-energy Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) run at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the cooler operation at 1.6 MeV electron beam energy was tested in a short beam line configuration. The main result of the study is that the cooler beam generation system is suitable for BNL needs. In a striking difference with running 4.3 MeV beam, no unprovoked beam recirculation interruptions were observed.
@article{arxiv.1207.5821,
title = {Low-energy run of Fermilab Electron Cooler's beam generation system},
author = {Lionel Prost and Alexander Shemyakin and Alexei Fedotov and Jorg Kewisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5821},
year = {2012}
}