Polarized proton acceleration at the Brookhaven AGS and RHIC

Author

Huang, Heng ; Ahrens, L. ; Alessi, J.G. ; Alekseev, I. ; Bai, M. ; Beebe-Wang, J. ; Brarvar, S. ; Brennan, M. ; Brown, K.A. ; Bunce, G. ; Drees, A. ; Fisher, W. ; Gardner, C. ; Glenn, W. ; Igo, G. ; Jinnochi, O. ; Luccio, A.U. ; MacKay, W. ; Montag, C. ;

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

51

Abstract

Polarized proton beam has been accelerated and stored at 100GeV in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study spin effects in the hadronic reactions. The essential equipment includes four Siberian snakes and eight spin rotators in two RHIC rings, a partial snake in the AGS, fast relative polarimeters, and ac dipoles in the AGS and RHIC. This paper summarizes the performance of RHIC as a polarized proton collider and of AGS as the injector to RHIC.

Keywords

colliding beam accelerators; polarimetry; proton accelerators; proton polarisation; storage rings; synchrotrons; 100 GeV; AC dipoles; AGS injector; Brookhaven AGS; Brookhaven RHIC; Siberian snakes; fast relative polarimeters; hadronic reactions; partial snake; polarized proton acceleration; spin effects; spin rotators; Acceleration; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Optical beams; Optical polarization; Particle beams; Protons; Pulse measurements; Resonance; Synchrotrons;

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.2003.1288838

Filename

1288838