Status and recent performance of the accelerators that serve as gold injector for RHIC

Author

Ahrens, L. ; Alessi, J. ; van Asselt, W. ; Benjamin, J. ; Blaskiewicz, M. ; Brennan, J.M. ; Brown, K.A. ; Carlson, C. ; Delong, J. ; Gardner, C.J. ; Glenn, J.W. ; Hayes, T. ; Roser, T. ; Smith, K.S. ; Steski, D. ; Tsoupas, N. ; Zeno, K. ; Zhang, S.Y.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3326

Abstract

The recent successful commissioning and operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) requires the injection of gold ions of specified energy and intensity with longitudinal and transverse emittances small enough to meet the luminosity requirements of the collider. Ion beams with the desired characteristics are provided by a series of three accelerators, the Tandem, Booster and AGS. The current status and recent performance of these accelerators are reviewed in this paper

Keywords

ion accelerators; particle beam injection; synchrotrons; van de Graaff accelerators; AGS; Booster; MP6; MP7; RHIC; Tandem; longitudinal emittance; transverse emittance; Acceleration; Colliding beam accelerators; Feedback; Gold; Ion accelerators; Ion beams; Laboratories; Monitoring; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.988099

Filename

988099