Resolution limits with cooled beams

Storage rings for intense proton and ion beams are under construction which will work in the low and intermediate energy range, for experiments with internal targets. These machines will have a very good vacuum and will be equipped with efficient cooling devices which will give small beam dimensions and a small momentum spread. Under these conditions intrabeam scattering becomes a dominant effect. Calculations were made to estimate the resulting beam dimensions and momentum spread for different ions and energies