RHIC survey and alignment

Author

Karl, F.X. ; Anderson, R.R. ; Goldman, M.A. ; Hemmer, F.M. ; Kazmark, D., Jr. ; Mroczkowski, T.T. ; Roecklein, J.C.

Author_Institution

RHIC Project, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

2919

Abstract

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider consists of two interlaced plane rings, a pair of mirror-symmetric beam injection arcs, a spatially curved beam transfer line from the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, and a collection of precisely positioned and aligned magnets, on appropriately positioned support stands, threaded on those arcs. RHIC geometry is defined by six beam crossing points exactly in a plane, lying precisely at the vertices of a regular hexagon of specified size position and orientation of this hexagon are defined geodetically. Survey control and alignment procedures, currently in use to construct RHIC, are described

Keywords

beam handling equipment; beam handling techniques; electromagnets; ion accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; Alternating Gradient Synchrotron; RHIC alignment; RHIC survey; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; aligned magnets; beam crossing points; curved beam transfer line; interlaced plane rings; mirror-symmetric beam injection arcs; regular hexagon; size orientation; size position; support stands; Atmospheric measurements; Colliding beam devices; Foot; Geometry; Instruments; Insulators; Laboratories; Magnets; Poles and towers; Steel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.309505

Filename

309505