Potential Luminosity Improvement for Low-Energy RHIC Operation with Electron Cooling

for Low-Energy RHIC cooling working group There is a strong interest in heavy-ion RHIC collisions in the energy range below the present RHIC injection energy, which is termed “low-energy ” operation. These collisions will help to answer one of the key questions in the field of QCD about the existence and location of a critical point on the QCD phase diagram. However, luminosity projections are relatively low for the lowest energy points of interest. Luminosity improvement can be provided with RHIC electron cooling at low beam energies. This report summarizes the expected luminosity improvements with electron cooling and various limitations