From experience, the lifetime of the beam in the storage ring should be on the order of magnitude of hours, however, we observer beam lifetimes of the order of 10ish minutes. This suggests either a beam loss mechanism, a totally wrong species or a combination of both.

Yesterday (Elog entry 46) it was verified that the main beam is indeed 229-Thorium in the ESR.

2024-06-13: After discussion (phone) with Markus the lifetimes are reasonable and are dominated by recombination in the cooler.