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D'Ottavio, T.

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MOPLT163 Luminosity Optimization Using Automated IR Steering at RHIC 911
 
  • K.A. Drees, T. D'Ottavio
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  The goal of the RHIC 2004 Au-Au run was to maximize the achieved integrated luminosity. One way is to increase beam currents and minimize beam transverse emittances. Another important ingredient is the minimization of time spent on activities postponing the declaration of 'physics conditions', i.e. stable beam conditions allowing the experimental detectors to take data. Since collision rates are particularly high in the beginning of the store the integrated luminosity benefits considerably from any minute saved early in the store. In the RHIC run 2004 a new IR steering application uses luminosity monitor signals as a feedback for a fully automated steering procedure. This report gives an overview of the used procedure and summarizes the achieved results.  
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.