We are designing and fabricating two new thermionic sources of magnetized electrons for use in the electron lens project in the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) at Fermilab. These electron sources will be used for cooling 2.5 MeV protons. One source will be used to compensate for emittance growth due to Intra Beam Scattering in experiments with weak space-charge, while the other source will be used to research the interplay between electron cooling and intense space charge. In this paper we present the progress made so far and the upcoming steps for the thermionic electron sources.
@article{arxiv.2307.06211,
title = {Thermionic Sources for Electron Cooling at IOTA},
author = {M. K. Bossard and J. Brandt and Y. -K. Kim and S. Kladov and N. Banerjee and B. Cathey and G. Stancari and S. Nagaitsev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06211},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.02480