THE COMMISSIONING STATUS OF RHIC.
The construction and commissioning status of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC. is discussed. Those novel features of a heavy ion Collider that are distinct from conventional hadron Colliders in general arc noted. These features are derived from the experimental requirements of operation with a variety of ion species over a wide energy range including collisions between ions of unequal energies. The paper notes other challenging issues for the Collider including intrabeam scattering, interaction-region error compensation, magnet alignments, and matched transition-energy jump. The project is in the final few months of a seven-year construction cycle and is entering the commissioning phase. A review of the superconducting magnet program is given together with the status of the machine construction and commissioning.
- Research Organization:
- BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 15016628
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-66003; R&D Project: RC1000; KB091G3000; TRN: US0502722
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1999 PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE, NEW YORK, NY (US), 03/29/1999--04/02/1999; Other Information: PBD: 29 Mar 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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