Polarized beams at RHIC
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven allows for the unique possibility of colliding two 250 GeV polarized proton beams at luminosities of up to 2 {times} 10{sup 32} cm{sup {minus}2} s{sup {minus}1}. A partial Siberian Snake in the AGS has recently been successfully tested and full Siberian Snakes, spin rotators, and polarimeters for RHIC are being developed to make the acceleration of polarized beams to 250 GeV possible. High energy polarized beam collisions will open up the unique physics opportunities of studying spin effects in hard processes, which will allow the study of the spin structure of the proton and also the verification of the many well documented expectations of spin effects in perturbative QCD and parity violation in W and Z production.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 132722
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--62257; CONF-9508185--1; ON: DE96002128
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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PARTICLE BOOSTERS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
POLARIMETERS
POLARIZATION
POLARIZED BEAMS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
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SOLENOIDS
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