PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS IN HIGH-ENERGY ION COLLIDERS
High-energy ion colliders (hadron colliders operating with ions other than protons) are premier research tools for nuclear physics. The collision energy and high luminosity are important design and operations considerations. The experiments also expect flexibility with frequent changes in the collision energy, detector fields, and ion species, including asymmetric collisions. For the creation, acceleration, and storage of bright intense ion beams limits are set by space charge, charge exchange, and intrabeam scattering effects. The latter leads to luminosity lifetimes of only a few hours for intense heavy ions beams. Currently, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL is the only operating high-energy ion collider. Later this decade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), under construction at CERN, will also run with heavy ions.
- Research Organization:
- BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/SC (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 15016108
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-73455-2005-CP; R&D Project: AD-003; KB-0202011; TRN: US0501933
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: PAC 2005 PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE, KNOXVILLE, TN (US), 05/16/2005--05/20/2005; Other Information: PBD: 16 May 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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