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MOPLT167 |
RHIC Operation with Longitudinally Polarized Protons
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- 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
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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.
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MOPLT179 |
Beam Scrubbing for RHIC Polarized Proton Opearation
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- S.Y. Zhang, W. Fischer, H. Huang, T. Roser
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
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One of the intensity limiting factor of RHIC polarized proton beam is the electron cloud induced pressure rise. During the 2003 polarized proton run, a beam scrubbing study was performed. Actual beam scrubbing time was much less than the planned 2 hours. However, a non-trivial beam scrubbing effect was observed not only in the locations with highest pressure rise, but also in most of the single beam straight sections. This not only confirmed that beam scrubbing is indeed a countermeasure to the electron cloud, but also showed the feasibility of applying beam scrubbing in RHIC proton beam operation to allow for higher beam intensities. In this article, the results will be reported.
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TUPLT190 |
Acceleration of Polarized Beams using Multiple Strong Partial Siberian Snakes
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- 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
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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.
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MOPLT165 |
Luminosity Increases in Gold-gold Operation in RHIC
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- 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
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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.
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MOPLT178 |
RHIC Pressure Rise
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- 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
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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.
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