Antiproton Source – Debunching and
Cooling
Particles enter with a narrow time
spread and broad energy
spread.
High (low)
energy pbars take more (less) to go around…
…and the RF is phased so they are decelerated
(accelerated),
Debunching
resulting in a narrow energy
spread and broad time spread.
Cooling
Pickups detect deviations from an ideal orbit, which are used to “kick” the orbit back to the nominal. This reduces
the transverse emittance in a statistical way.
The anti-proton source
can typically “stack” at about 7E10 pbars/h, up to a maximum of about 120E10, at which
point anti-protons are transferred to the Tevatron (via the M.I.).