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Electron cooling offers high‐luminosity antiproton beams

APR 01, 1977

An old idea in accelerator design, called “electron cooling,” has been demonstrated to work in experiments over the last two years at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Novosibirsk. The Siberian success has inspired groups at CERN and Fermilab to start experiments on electron cooling with the hope that these might lead to high‐energy colliding‐beam experiments involving protons and antiprotons.

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