Abstract
We have measured the X-rays emitted in the energy region from 2 to 30 keV from the electron beam in the electron cooler built for the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR). Besides an intense continuum of bremsstrahlung photons, a high rate of characteristic X-rays is also observed. A sensitive dependence of the intensity of these lines on the parameters of the electron cooler, such as beam energy, loss current, and the residual pressure is found. This gives information about the parts of the cooler which are hit by electrons, in particular by those in the loss current, and therefore demonstrates that X-rays could be a sensitive diagnostics for electron beam losses. The results give indications of the background which can be expected in X-ray measurements of electron-ion recombination in the cooler. A beneficial use of this X-ray background could be for wavelength calibration.
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