Dear all,
The test beamtime is now over.
We had 6 days of Li-like carbon in the ESR (122 MeV/u).
Effectively, we could measure almost 5 days continuously.
There were only a few interruptions, one of which was a longer power failure.
The vacuum in the ESR was not optimal, which strongly reduced the lifetime of the stored ion beam (~30 s)
and the electron cooler showed weird instabilities, which need to be clarified still.
Still, we were able to cover all aspects of the program.
Essentially everything we tried worked.
Therefore, I conclude that it was a great success.
Many thanks to all who have contributed to it!
Special thanks to Sebastian and Benedikt - who worked really hard during the last months - for prepapring the laser system and the data acquisition system.
Also special thanks to Volker and Ken for preparing the XUV detector system.
We will start sorting/ordering & filtering the data soon and will invite for a meeting where we present the raw data so that we can discuss it.
Then we will also discuss the next big step: data analysis.
Of course it is our next objective (with high priority) to publish the analyzed data in foreseeable time.
I hope to see you soon.
Until then, take care and stay healthy,
Danyal |