Pulsed testbed the CSRm ion storage ring in Lanzhou, China. (Courtesy: IMP) Physicists in the US and China have studied how a pulsed beam of electrons can be used to cool a beam of high-energy ions – ...

Electron cyclotron resonance ion sources (ECRIS) are pivotal devices in contemporary accelerator science, renowned for their ability to generate intense beams of ions reliably. These sources employ ...

How do different materials react to the impact of ions? This is a question that plays an important role in many areas of research -- for example in nuclear fusion research, when the walls of the ...

Accelerator physicists have demonstrated a groundbreaking technique using bunches of electrons to keep beams of particles cool at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)--a U.S. Department of ...