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Title: A model of polarized-beam AGS in the ray-tracing code Zgoubi

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1336073· OSTI ID:1336073

A model of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, based on the AGS snapramps, has been developed in the stepwise ray-tracing code Zgoubi. It has been used over the past 5 years in a number of accelerator studies aimed at enhancing RHIC proton beam polarization. It is also used to study and optimize proton and Helion beam polarization in view of future RHIC and eRHIC programs. The AGS model in Zgoubi is operational on-line via three different applications, ’ZgoubiFromSnaprampCmd’, ’AgsZgoubiModel’ and ’AgsModelViewer’, with the latter two essentially interfaces to the former which is the actual model ’engine’. All three commands are available from the controls system application launcher in the AGS ’StartUp’ menu, or from eponymous commands on shell terminals. Main aspects of the model and of its operation are presented in this technical note, brief excerpts from various studies performed so far are given for illustration, means and methods entering in ZgoubiFromSnaprampCmd are developed further in appendix.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
DOE Contract Number:
SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1336073
Report Number(s):
BNL-112453-2016-IR; R&D Project: KBCH139; KB0202011; TRN: US1701395
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English