Setup and performance of the RHIC injector accelerators for the 2007 run with gold ions

Author

Ahrens, L. ; Alessi, J. ; Benjamin, J. ; Blaskiewicz, M. ; Brennan, J.M. ; Brown, K.A. ; Carlson, C. ; Fischer, W. ; Gardner, C.J. ; Glenn, J.W. ; Harvey, M. ; Hayes, T. ; Huang, Haixin ; Marr, G. ; Morris, J. ; Pilat, F. ; Roser, T. ; Severino, F. ; Smit

Author_Institution

BNL, Upton

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

1862

Lastpage

1864

Abstract

Gold ions for the 2007 run [1] of the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are accelerated in the Tandem,Booster and AGS prior to injection into RHIC. The setup and performance of this chain of accelerators is reviewed with a focus on improvements in the quality of beam delivered to RHIC. In particular,more uniform stripping foils between Booster and AGS,and a new bunch merging scheme in AGS have provided beam bunches with reduced longitudinal emittance for RHIC.

Keywords

gold; ion accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam focusing; particle beam injection; storage rings; synchrotrons; AGS; Au; BNL; Booster; Brookhaven National Laboratory; RHIC injector accelerators; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; Tandem; beam bunches; beam focusing; gold ions; longitudinal emittance; stripping foils; Acceleration; Colliding beam accelerators; Elementary particle vacuum; Feedback; Gold; Ion accelerators; Laboratories; Merging; Particle beams; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0916-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2007.4440923

Filename

4440923