A cold stripper for a high-energy ion implanter system is provided. The cold stripper including a stripper tube having a hollow cavity, a first aperture in the stripper tube to admit an ion beam of positively charged ions into the hollow cavity and a second aperture in the stripper tube to discharge the ion beam from the hollow cavity, a gas pump coupled to the hollow cavity to introduce a gas into the hollow cavity, one or more cooling passages in the stripper tube, and a coolant pump coupled to the one or more cooling passages to circulate a coolant through the one or more cooling passages.