Commissioning of RHIC deuteron-gold collisions

Author

Satogata, T. ; Ahrens, L. ; Bai, M. ; Beebe-Wang, J. ; Blaskiewicz, M. ; Brennan, J.M. ; Brown, K.A. ; Bruno, D. ; Cameron, P.P. ; Cardona, J. ; Connolly, R. ; Drees, A. ; Fischer, W. ; Fliller, R.P. ; Ganetis, G. ; Gardner, C. ; Glenn, J.W. ; Hahn, H.H.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

1706

Abstract

Deuteron and gold beams have been accelerated to a collision energy of √s = 200 GeV/u in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), providing the first asymmetric-species collisions of this complex. Necessary changes for this mode of operation include new ramping software and asymmetric crossing angle geometries. This paper reviews machine performance, problems encountered and their solutions, and accomplishments during the 16 weeks of ramp-up and operations.

Keywords

beam handling techniques; colliding beam accelerators; ion accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; storage rings; synchrotrons; RHIC deuteron-gold collisions; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; asymmetric crossing angle geometries; asymmetric-species collisions; collision energy; machine performance; review; Acceleration; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Energy storage; Gold; Laboratories; Particle beams; Physics; Power supplies; Probes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288643

Filename

1288643