Development of techniques for the cooling of ions

• Published in: Physics Uspekhi Vol. 61; no. 5; pp. 424 - 434
• Main Authors: Dikansky, N S, Meshkov, I N, Parkhomchuk, V V, Skrinsky, A N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, Russian Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing 01.05.2018; IOP Publishing
• Subjects: Antiparticles; Antiprotons; Atomic physics; beam; beam cooling; Charged particles; collider; colliding beams; Cooling; Electron beams; electron cooling; Heavy ions; Ions; Nuclear physics; Particle accelerators; storage ring

The historical development of techniques for cooling charged particles is presented. It was G I Budker, the founder and first Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) in Novosibirsk, who initiated the development of cooling methods as a means of improving the performance of colliding beams...