Intensity Improvement For AD Experiments Using Barrier Bucket Cooling

We propose to cool the antiproton beam confined into a 300 ns or shorter barrier bucket. The longitudinal emittance obtained this way is much smaller than it is possible with coasting beam cooling. This allows beam bunching already in the AD ring with 202.56 MHz, the frequency of the ASACUSA RFQD. The proposed scheme requires the installation of two 202.56 MHz cavities and a barrier bucket cavity into the ring. With this modest investment ASACUSA gains a factor 2-3 in intensity. A proof of principle test has been done during 3 MD sessions recently. The beam emittances in all planes were measured after the beam was cooled in the barrier bucket and were found sufficiently low.