Talk:Stochastic cooling

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i'm not sure that the paragraph, about why it's called "stochastic cooling" is really correct. Surely it's "stochastic cooling" because the beam is cooled due to the inherently stochastic momentum transfer between dimensions (x,y,z) from hard-body collisions.

also, i believe stochastic cooling was first demonstrated using the intersecting storage rings connected to the proton synchrotron, NOT the super proton synchrotron. See http://library.cern.ch/archives/isad/isaisr.html where it mentions it was tested in the ISR in 1965. The SPS didn't come online until 1976 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.59.188 (talk) 18:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)