Title :
RHIC Operational Status
Author_Institution :
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793-5000, USA
Abstract :
As the first hadron accelerator and collider consisting of two independent superconducting rings RHIC has operated with a wide range of beam energies and particle species. Machine operation and performance will be reviewed that includes high luminosity gold-on-gold and copper-on-copper collisions at design beam energy (100 GeV/u), asymmetric deuteron-on-gold collisions as well as high energy polarized proton-proton collisions (100 GeV on 100 GeV). Plans for future upgrades of RHIC will also be discussed.
Keywords :
Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Copper; Gold; Ion accelerators; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Polarization; Protons;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8859-3
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2005.1590433
