Groening L, Maier M, Xiao C, Dahl L, Gerhard P, Kester O K, Mickat S, Vormann H, Vossberg M, Chung M
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt D-64291, Germany.
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 698-798, Republic of Korea.
Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Dec 31;113(26):264802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.264802. Epub 2014 Dec 30.
The performance of accelerators profits from phase-space tailoring by coupling of degrees of freedom. Previously applied techniques swap the emittances among the three degrees but the set of available emittances is fixed. In contrast to these emittance exchange scenarios, the emittance transfer scenario presented here allows for arbitrarily changing the set of emittances as long as the product of the emittances is preserved. This Letter is the first experimental demonstration of transverse emittance transfer along an ion beam line. The amount of transfer is chosen by setting just one single magnetic field value. The envelope functions (beta) and slopes (alpha) of the finally uncorrelated and repartitioned beam at the exit of the transfer line do not depend on the amount of transfer.
