Va. Lebedev et al., SCHOTTKY NOISE IN A LASER-COOLED ION-BEAM, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 52(4), 1995, pp. 4345-4353
The application of the general theory of Schottky noise to a beam subj
ected to laser cooling in a storage ring is considered. It is shown th
at the noise properties differ strongly from the case of an electron-c
ooled beam. The important role of the tails of the velocity distributi
on is discussed. Good agreement between the theoretical predictions an
d experimental results obtained at the ASTRID storage ring has been fo
und. The possibility of extracting dynamical information from the Scho
ttky spectra is also discussed.