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Drees, K.A.

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MOPLT162 Continuous Abort Gap Cleaning at RHIC 908
 
  • K.A. Drees, R.P. Fliller III, W. Fu, R. Michnoff
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  Since the RHIC Au-Au run in the year 2001 the 200 MHz cavity system was used at storage and a 28 MHz system during injection and acceleration.The rebucketing procedure potentially causes a higher debunching rate of heavy ion beams in addition to amplifying debunching due to other mechanisms. At the end of a four hour store, debunched beam can easily account for more than 30% of the total beam intensity. This effect is even stronger with the achieved high intensities of the RHIC run 2004. A beam abort at the presence of a lot of debunched beam bears the risk of magnet quenching and experimental detector damage due to uncontrolled beam losses. Thus it is desirable to avoid any accumulation of debunched beam from the beginning of each store, in particular to anticipate cases of unscheduled beam aborts due to a system failure. A combination of a fast transverse kicker and the new 2-stage copper collimator system is used to clean the abort gap continuously throughout the store with a repetition rate of 1 Hz. This report gives an overview of the new gap cleaning procedure and the achieved performance.  
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.  
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.  
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.  
WEPLT177 Analysis of Electron Cloud at RHIC 2236
 
  • U. Iriso, M. Blaskiewicz, P. Cameron, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, H.-C. Hseuh, R. Lee, S. Peggs, L. Smart, D. Trbojevic, S.Y. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • G. Rumolo
    GSI, Darmstadt
  
  Pressure rises with high intense beams are becoming the main luminosity limitation at RHIC. Observations during the latest runs show beam induced electron multipacting as one of the causes for these pressure rises. Experimental studies are carried out at RHIC using devoted instrumentation to understand the mechanism leading to electron clouds. Possible cures using NEG coated beam pipes and solenoids are experimentally tested. In the following, we report the experimental electron cloud data and analyzed the results using computer simulation codes.  
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.