AN INTENSE SOURCE OF ANTIPROTONS FOR ANTIMATTER RESEARCH AT FNAL

There is considerable interest in low energy antiprotons for atomic, n uclear, and particle physics. The LEAR facility at CERN is currently t he only source of antiprotons with low enough energy to be stored and accumulated in a Penning trap. With only minimal hardware modification s, the Fermilab Linac and Booster synchrotron can be used to decelerat e an initial ensemble of 10(11) antiprotons with an efficiency of appr oximately 0.5%. Subsequent improvements will be able to increase this efficiency to near 100% transmission of 10(12) antiprotons. These tran sfers could take place as often as two or three times a day with only a marginal decrease in Tevatron Collider luminosity.