Bai, M.

Paper	Title	Page
MOPLT165	Luminosity Increases in Gold-gold Operation in RHIC	917
	W. Fischer, L. Ahrens, J. Alessi, M. Bai, D. Barton, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, D. Bruno, J. Butler, R. Calaga, P. Cameron, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, J. DeLong, K.A. Drees, W. Fu, G. Ganetis, J. Glenn, T. Hayes, P. He, H.-C. Hseuh, H. Huang, P. Ingrassia, U. Iriso, R. Lee, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, G. Marr, A. Marusic, R. Michnoff, C. Montag, J. Morris, T. Nicoletti, B. Oerter, C. Pearson, S. Peggs, A. Pendzick, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, T. Satogata, C. Schultheiss, A. Sidi-Yekhlef, L. Smart, S. Tepikian, R. Tomas, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J. Tuozzolo, J. Van Zeijts, K. Vetter, K. Yip, A. Zaltsman, S.Y. Zhang, W. Zhang BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	After an exploratory phase, during which a number of beam parameters were varied, the RHIC experiments now demand high luminosity to study heavy ion collisions in detail. Presently RHIC operates routinely above its design luminosity. In the first 4 weeks of its current operating period (Run-4) the machine has delivered more integrated luminosity that during the 14 weeks of the last gold-gold operating period (Run-2). We give an overview of the changes that increased the instantaneous luminosity and luminosity lifetime, raised the reliability, and improved the operational efficiency.
MOPLT167	RHIC Operation with Longitudinally Polarized Protons	920
	H. Huang, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, A.U. Luccio, W.W. MacKay, C. Montag, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, T. Satogata, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic, J. Van Zeijts, A.Y. Zelinsky, S.Y. Zhang BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	Longitudinally polarized proton beams have been accelerated, stored and collided at 100GeV in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study spin effects in the hadronic reactions. The essential equipment includes four Siberian snakes, eight spin rotators and a fast relative polarimeters in each of the two RHIC rings as well as local polarimeters at the STAR and PHENIX detectors. This paper summarizes the performance of RHIC as a polarized proton collider.
MOPLT170	eRHIC, Future Electron-ion Collider at BNL	923
	V. Ptitsyn, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, I. Ben-Zvi, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, R. Calaga, X. Chang, E.D. Courant, A. Deshpande, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, H. Hahn, J. Kewisch, V. Litvinenko, W.W. MacKay, C. Montag, S. Ozaki, B. Parker, S. Peggs, T. Roser, A. Ruggiero, B. Surrow, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic, V. Yakimenko, S.Y. Zhang BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York D.P. Barber DESY, Hamburg M. Farkhondeh, W. Franklin, W. Graves, R. Milner, C. Tschalaer, J. Van der Laan, D. Wang, F. Wang, A. Zolfaghari, T. Zwart MIT/BLAC, Middleton, Massachusetts A.V. Otboev, Y.M. Shatunov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
	The paper reviews the progress made lately in the design of eRHIC, proposed future electron-ion collider on the basis of the existing RHIC machine. The eRHIC aims to provide collisions of electrons and positrons on ions and protons in center mass energy range of 25-70 GeV. The goal luminosities are in 1032-1033 1/(s*cm2) values for e-p and in 1030-1031 1/(s*cm2) values for e-Au collisions. An essential design requirement is to provide longitudinally polarized beams of electrons and protons (and, possibly lighter ions) at the collision point. The eRHIC ZDR has been recently developed which considers various aspects of the accelerator design. An electron accelerator, which delivers about 0.5A polarized electron beam current in the electron energy range of 5 to 10 GeV, should be constructed at the BNL near existing ion rings of the RHIC collider and should intersect an ion ring at least in one of the available ion ring interaction regions. In order to reach the luminosity goals some upgrades in ion rings also would be required. Ways to reach lower beam emmittances (electron cooling) and higher beam intensities have to be realized.
MOPLT172	Quest for a New Working Point in RHIC	929
	R. Tomas, M. Bai, W. Fischer, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, T. Satogata BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	The beam-beam interaction is a limiting factor in RHIC's performance, particularly in proton operation. Changing the working point is a strategy to minimize the beam-beam effect and improve the performance of the machine. Experiments at injection energy and simulations have been performed for a set of working points in order to determine what are the best candidates.
MOPLT178	RHIC Pressure Rise	944
	S.Y. Zhang, J. Alessi, M. Bai, M. Blaskiewicz, P. Cameron, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, R.P. Fliller III, D. Gassner, J. Gullotta, P. He, H.-C. Hseuh, H. Huang, U. Iriso, R. Lee, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, C. Montag, B. Oerter, S. Peggs, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, T. Satogata, L. Smart, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, J. Van Zeijts, L. Wang, J. Wei, K. Zeno BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	Beam induced pressure rise remains an intensity limit at the RHIC for both heavy ion and polarized proton operations. The beam injection pressure rise at warm sections has been diagnosed due to electron cloud effect. In addition, pressure rise of heavy ion operation at the beam transition has caused experiment background problem in deuteron-gold run, and it is expected to take place in gold-gold run at high intensities. This type of pressure rise is related to beam momentum spread, and the electron cloud seems not dominant. Extensive approaches for both diagnosis and looking-for-remedies are undergoing in the current gold operation, RUN 4. Results of beam scrubbing, NEG pipe in RHIC ring, beam scraping test of ion desorption, beam momentum effect at the transition, beam gap effect, solenoid effect, and NEG pipe ion desorption test stand will be presented.
TUPLT177	RHIC Optics Measurements at Different Working Point	1541
	R. Calaga, M. Bai, S. Peggs, T. Roser, T. Satogata BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	Working point scans at RHIC were performed during 2004 to determine the effect on lifetime and luminosity. Linear optics were measured for different working point tunes by exciting coherent oscillations with the aid of RHIC AC dipoles. Two methods to measure the beta functions and phases are presented and compared: a conventional technique, and a new method based on singular value decomposition (SVD). The performance of a 3-bump beta wave algorithm to identify quadrupole error sources is also presented.
TUPLT190	Acceleration of Polarized Beams using Multiple Strong Partial Siberian Snakes	1577
	T. Roser, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, E.D. Courant, J. Glenn, R.C. Gupta, H. Huang, A.U. Luccio, W.W. MacKay, N. Tsoupas, E. Willen BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York M. Okamura, J. Takano RIKEN, Saitama
	Acceleration of polarized protons in the energy range of 5 to 25 GeV is particularly difficult since depolarizing spin resonances are strong enough to cause significant depolarization but full Siberian snakes cause intolerably large orbit excursions. Using a 20 - 30 % partial Siberian snake both imperfection and intrinsic resonances can be overcome. Such a strong partial Siberian snake was designed for the Brookhaven AGS using a dual pitch helical superconducting dipole. Multiple strong partial snakes are also discussed for spin matching at beam injection and extraction.
WEXLH01	Non-destructive Beam Measurements	165
	M. Bai BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	In high energy accelerators especially storage rings, non-destructive beam measurements are highly desirable to minimize the impact on the beam quality. In principle, the non-destructive tools can be either passive detectors like Schottky, or active devices which excite either longitudinal or transverse beam motions for the corresponding measurements. An example of such a device is ac dipole, a magnet with oscillating field, which can be used to achieve large coherent betatron oscillations. It has been demonstrated in the Brookhaven AGS that by adiabatically exciting the beam, the beam emittance growth due to the filamentation in the phase space can be avoided. This paper overviews both techniques in general. In particular, this paper also presents the beam tune measurement with Schottky detector, phase advance measurement as well as non-linear resonance measurements with the ac dipoles in the Brookhaven RHIC.
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WEPLT181	Measurement of Multipole Strengths from RHIC BPM Data	2239
	R. Tomas, M. Bai, W. Fischer BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York F. Franchi, G. Rumolo GSI, Darmstadt
	Recently resonance driving terms were successfully measured in the CERN SPS and the BNL RHIC from the Fourier spectrum of BPM data. Based on these measurements a new analysis has been derived to extract multipole strengths.In this paper we present experimental measurements of sextupolar and skew quadrupolar strengths carried out at RHIC. Also discussed is the possibility of a non-destructive measurement using an AC dipole.