ANTIPROTON DECELERATOR STATUS REPORT

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has been delivering 5.3 MeV antiprotons to the experiments for 10 years now. Beam cooling is essential for the AD operation. We review the AD machine and in particular the cooling performance. We give an overview of the present and future experiments and also the possible further deceleration of the beam from 5.3 MeV to 100 keV kinetic energy.

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