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Title: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven

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OSTI ID:5828707

The conceptual design of a collider capable of accelerating and colliding heavy ions and to be constructed in the existing 3.8 km tunnel at Brookhaven has been developed. The collider has been designed to provide collisions of gold ions at six intersection points with a luminosity of about 2 /times/ 10/sup 26/ cm/sup /minus/2/sec/sup /minus/1/ at an energy per nucleon of 100 GeV in each beam. Collisions with different ion species, including protons, will be possible. The salient design features and the reasons for major design choices of the proposed machine are discussed in this paper. 28 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
5828707
Report Number(s):
BNL-42495; CONF-890803-10; ON: DE89017598
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on high energy accelerators, Tsukuba, Japan, 20-26 Aug 1989; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English