The RHIC project: design, status, challenges, and perspectives
The design and construction 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 are 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 project is in the fifth year of a seven-year construction cycle. A review of the superconducting magnet program is given together with progress to date on the machine construction and commissioning. Emphasis is made on challenging issues including intrabeam scattering, interaction-region error compensation, magnet alignments, and matched transition-energy jump.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 465644
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-63640; CONF-970368-1; ON: DE97004566; TRN: 97:010038
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. RCNP Osaka international symposium on multi-gev high-performance accelerators and related technology, Osaka (Japan), 12-14 Mar 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1997]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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