UPGRADING RHIC FOR HIGHER LUMINOSITY.

Conference · Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:783166

MACKAY, W; BEN-ZVI, I; BRENNAN, J M; HARRISON, M; KEWISCH, J; PEGGS, S; ROSER, T; TRBOJEVIC, D; PARKHOMCHUK, V

While RHIC has only just started running for its heavy ion physics program, in the first run last summer, we achieved 10% of the design luminosity. In this paper we discuss plans for increasing the luminosity by a factor of 35 beyond the nominal design. A factor of 4 should be straightforward by doubling the number of bunches per ring and squeezing the {beta}* from 2 to 1 m at selected interaction points. An additional factor of 8 to 10 could be possible by using electron cooling to counteract intrabeam scattering and reduce emittances of the beams.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 783166
• Report Number(s): BNL-67939; KA0201; R&D Project: AD002ADOP; KA0201; TRN: US0103984
• Resource Relation: Conference: PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE 2001, CHICAGO, IL (US), 06/18/2001--06/22/2001; Other Information: PBD: 18 Jun 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
MODIFICATIONS
DESIGN
ELECTRON COOLING
HEAVY IONS
BEAM LUMINOSITY
BEAM BUNCHING
BEAM EMITTANCE
OPTIMIZATION