Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 174801 (2002) [4 pages]Model and Observations of Schottky-Noise Suppression in a Cold Heavy-Ion BeamReceived 30 November 2001; published 10 April 2002 Some years ago it was found at GSI in Darmstadt that the momentum spread of electron-cooled beams of highly charged ions dropped abruptly to very low values when the particle number decreased to 10 000 or less. This has been interpreted as an ordering of the ions, such that they line up after one another in the ring. We report observations of similar transitions at CRYRING, including an accompanying drop in Schottky-noise power. We also introduce a model of the ordered beam from which the Schottky-noise power can be calculated numerically. The good agreement between the model calculation and the experimental data is seen as evidence for a spatial ordering of the ions. © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.174801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.174801
PACS:
29.20.Dh, 29.27.Fh, 41.75.-i
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