Title :
RHIC status and plans
Author_Institution :
Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA
Abstract :
RHIC is the first hadron accelerator and collider consisting of two independent rings. It is designed to operate over a wide range of beam energies and with particle species ranging from polarized protons to heavy ions. Machine operation and performance will be reviewed that includes gold-on-gold collisions at design beam energy (100 GeV/u), first high energy polarized proton-proton collisions (100 GeV on 100 GeV) as well as first asymmetric operation of RHIC to produce deuteron-on-gold collisions. Plans for future luminosity upgrades will also be presented.
Keywords :
colliding beam accelerators; ion accelerators; proton accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; 100 GeV; RHIC; asymmetric operation; deuteron-on-gold collisions; future luminosity upgrades; gold-on-gold collisions; hadron accelerator; hadron collider; independent rings; machine operation; machine performance; polarized proton-proton collisions; Acceleration; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Gold; Ion accelerators; Laboratories; Particle accelerators; Particle beams; Polarization; Proton accelerators;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7738-9
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2003.1288831
